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We present a short historical review of the major figures and institutions that
contributed to make Paris a renowned centre of physiology and neurology during
the xixth and the first half of the xxth century. We purposely chose to focus on
the period 1800-1950, as 1800 corresponds to the actual beginning of experimental
physiology of the nervous system - what is here referred to as "neuroscience"-and
1950 marks its exponential rise. Our presentation is divided into four chapters,
matching the main disciplines which have progressed and contributed the most to
the knowledge we have of the brain sciences: anatomy, physiology, neurology, and
psychiatry-psychology. The present article is the second of four parts of this
review which includes the chapter on neurophysiology with selected biographical
sketches of Francois Magendie, Marie Jean-Pierre Flourens, Claude Bernard,
Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, Etienne-Jules Marey, Alfred Fessard and Denise
Albe-Fessard.
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