title: Crossing boundaries: making connectiions.
abstract: This Presidential address to the International Society for the History of the Neurosciences was given at Lausanne in September 1999. It reviews some of the contributions given at that conference and provides a brief overview of the history of the mind-brain problem in Western neuroscientific thought.
authors.affiliation: Vision Sciences, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: C U
authors.initials: CU
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain; D003226:Congresses as Topic / Q000266:history; D006663:Historiography; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049711:History, Modern 1601-; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history*; D011611:Psychosomatic Medicine / Q000266:history*; D013557:Switzerland; D019366:Western World