The origins of “neuroscience” and neuroscientist”

Key Points

• The aim is to examine the historical origins of the terms neuroscience and neuroscientist and their relevance to earlier practices.
• Explored the historical timelines of the terms neurology and neuroscience.
• Analyzed the legitimacy of applying modern terms to past practitioners of nervous system studies.
• Identified that neuroscience and neuroscientist emerged in the late twentieth century.
• Proposed that early practitioners can be retrospectively attributed these modern terms.