The Influence of Hans-Lukas Teuber and the Psychophysiological Laboratory on the Establishment and Development of Neuropsychology

Clinical neuropsychology: Foundational history and future prospects.

“…In 1945, Morris B. Bender and Hans-Lukas Teuber established a laboratory at the Naval Hospital in San Diego to study visual abnormalities among men with acute battle injuries to the nervous system (Bender & Teuber, 1949;Hurvich et al, 1987). Teuber later established psychophysiological laboratories at New York University' s Bellevue Medical Center and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Hurvich et al, 1987;Weinstein, 1985). Teuber' s method of laboratory research into the psychological effects of brain injury shared similarities with the work of Halstead' s laboratory.…”

Modern clinical neuropsychology in historical perspective.

“…Many individuals either passed through his laboratory or trained directly under his supervision. These individuals contributed to a wide array of experimental studies of visual field deficits, somatosensory functioning, developmental complications of brain lesions, problem-solving behavior, and other aspects of higher cognitive functioning, such as the conditional reaction (Weinstein, 1985). Studies of tactile sensitivity, two-point discrimination, point localization, pattern discrimination, roughness discrimination, spatial orientation, and body image are widely cited.…”

A Tribute to Professor Sidney Weinstein on his 70th Birthday

“…A summary of these publications, which demonstrates the wide range of the research topics in which he was engaged, has been provided elsewhere (Weinstein, 1985 .Professor Weinstein is considered one of the founders of Clinical Neuropsychology in this country. His research contributed substantially to the elucidation of behavioral deficits in brain-injured patients and to the understanding of hemispheric differentiation for sensory, language, and intellectual skills.…”