Matthew Perkins-Mcvey
Biographic Data
| ID | 4284080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Perkins-Mcvey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Perkins-Mcvey |
| SIGNATURE | PERKINS-MCVEY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6249-7820 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Intoxicated with Madness
Scholarship surrounding the Kraepelinian dichotomy of dementia praecox and manic-depressive insanity has overwhelmingly approached Kraepelin's nosology as the product of Kraepelin's clinical method, use of diagnostic cards, and pre-existing disease concepts, rather than his work in experimental psychology. Revisiting the significance of Kraepelin's 1881–1895 concept of intoxication as model psychosis, this article establishes that Kraepelin's ear…
Hannah Pickard
An ‘unholy’ alchemy
Today, the story of the opium trade is an almost archetypal representation of the social, economic and military power dynamics at play in the colonial world. But few, if any, are aware that the European encounter with Chinese opium smoking spurred a European interest in opium vapour therapy, or that its spirited uptake in European medicine inspired a research programme that spanned the continent for more than half a century. Opium smoking was int…
Addiction Becomes Normal
The short (and messy) life of the protagon theory of anaesthesia
and protein hypotheses aside, the lipid theory remains the most influential account of anaesthetic effects in modern pharmacology. An apparent aspect of the lipoidal model's continued dominance is its long historical pedigree, frequently aligned with a process of steady refinement from Bibra and Harless to Hermann, Pohl, and finally Meyer/Overton. This paper problematizes this continuum by placing the genesis of a short-lived experimental entity-…
Chinese Opium in America 1850–1920
Cortical localization and the nerve cell
Sigmund Freud's pioneering early work on individuated nerve cells, later termed "neurons," has long been recognized by the history of psychology. Yet, relatively little has been written about the influence of Freud's then mentor, Theodor Meynert, on Freud's 1884-1885 neuroanatomical research, or the monumental conceptual shift embodied in the project itself. Focusing on Freud's 1884 "Die Struktur der Elemente des Nervensytems" (The Structure of t…
That men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains
The promises of the Prozac century have fallen short; the number of novel, therapeutically significant medications successfully completing development shrinks every year; and the demand for better treatments constantly grows. Answering these hardships is a renewed optimism concerning the efficacy of controlled psychedelic therapy, a renaissance that has seen the resurgence of a familiar concept: intoxication as model psychosis. And yet, little ha…
Matteo Vagelli, Reconsidering historical epistemology
Were the scale of excitability a circle
A portrait of the neurophysiologist as a young man
In 1878, Sigmund Freud produced his first scientific publication while a medical student in Vienna, a physiological and histological analysis of Szymon Syrski's claim to have discovered the long-sought testes of the European eel. Though he would eventually come to be known as the father of psychoanalysis, a closer look at Freud's earliest scientific publication demonstrates that he was initially positioned on the cutting edge of neo-mechanistic p…
Kant, intoxicated
A portrait of the neurophysiologist as a young man
In 1878, Sigmund Freud produced his first scientific publication while a medical student in Vienna, a physiological and histological analysis of Szymon Syrski's claim to have discovered the long-sought testes of the European eel. Though he would eventually come to be known as the father of psychoanalysis, a closer look at Freud's earliest scientific publication demonstrates that he was initially positioned on the cutting edge of neo-mechanistic p…
Kant, intoxicated
Were the scale of excitability a circle
Cortical localization and the nerve cell
Sigmund Freud's pioneering early work on individuated nerve cells, later termed "neurons," has long been recognized by the history of psychology. Yet, relatively little has been written about the influence of Freud's then mentor, Theodor Meynert, on Freud's 1884-1885 neuroanatomical research, or the monumental conceptual shift embodied in the project itself. Focusing on Freud's 1884 "Die Struktur der Elemente des Nervensytems" (The Structure of t…
That men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains
The promises of the Prozac century have fallen short; the number of novel, therapeutically significant medications successfully completing development shrinks every year; and the demand for better treatments constantly grows. Answering these hardships is a renewed optimism concerning the efficacy of controlled psychedelic therapy, a renaissance that has seen the resurgence of a familiar concept: intoxication as model psychosis. And yet, little ha…
Matteo Vagelli, Reconsidering historical epistemology
Chinese Opium in America 1850–1920
Intoxicated with Madness
Scholarship surrounding the Kraepelinian dichotomy of dementia praecox and manic-depressive insanity has overwhelmingly approached Kraepelin's nosology as the product of Kraepelin's clinical method, use of diagnostic cards, and pre-existing disease concepts, rather than his work in experimental psychology. Revisiting the significance of Kraepelin's 1881–1895 concept of intoxication as model psychosis, this article establishes that Kraepelin's ear…
Hannah Pickard
An ‘unholy’ alchemy
Today, the story of the opium trade is an almost archetypal representation of the social, economic and military power dynamics at play in the colonial world. But few, if any, are aware that the European encounter with Chinese opium smoking spurred a European interest in opium vapour therapy, or that its spirited uptake in European medicine inspired a research programme that spanned the continent for more than half a century. Opium smoking was int…
Addiction Becomes Normal
The short (and messy) life of the protagon theory of anaesthesia
and protein hypotheses aside, the lipid theory remains the most influential account of anaesthetic effects in modern pharmacology. An apparent aspect of the lipoidal model's continued dominance is its long historical pedigree, frequently aligned with a process of steady refinement from Bibra and Harless to Hermann, Pohl, and finally Meyer/Overton. This paper problematizes this continuum by placing the genesis of a short-lived experimental entity-…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Neurology and Historical Studies (4 works) · Psychedelics and Drug Studies (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · History of science (3 works)