NINDS at 50 : an incomplete history celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke / Lewis P. Rowland.

New York : Demos Medical Publishing, [2003], ©2003.

xii, 346 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm

Originally published: Bethesda, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, [2001].

Birth -- First steps -- Development -- Directors of NINDS -- The scientific directors -- Intramural program -- Extramural program -- Training -- Big tickets: collaborative and field studies -- Decade of the brain: David Mahoney and the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives -- The voluntaries -- Five Lasker awards and six Nobels -- Seymour S. Kety, M.D. -- Louis Sokoloff, M.D. -- Nancy S. Wexler, Ph. D. -- Roscoe O. Brady, M.D. -- D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D. -- Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D. -- Celebrating the synapse -- Julius Axelrod, Ph. D. -- Arvid Carlsson, M.D. -- Paul Greengard, Ph. D. --Eric R. Kandel, M.D. -- One brain science, genomics, the clinical neurosciences, and the future of NINDS -- A neuroscience timeline -- Fifty years of advances in neuroscience.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.