Bibliographical note

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(1958–) and (1958–) subsequently founded the Research group ‘Sensory‐Motor Interaction’ at the Department of Health Science and Technology at Aalborg University. Their work secured a long‐lasting support from the National Research Foundation in the period 1993–2006. The work involved basic research in motor control such as reflex control of muscle contraction during walking in humans (Sinkjaer et al., 1988 ) and basic pain research in humans (Arendt‐Nielsen & Yarnitsky, 2009 ). Translational work includes the development of recording of sensory feedback used to control stimulation of muscle nerves, for example, to control ‘drop‐foot’ pathology following stroke or spinal cord injury (Lyons et al., 2002 ). Steen Andreassen is since 1998 head of the ‘Centre for Model‐based Medical Decision Support’ at the same department. This centre shall secure the optimal use of the translational research at the university in the healthcare system as well and industry, for example, MUNIN for diagnosing neuromuscular disorders (Andreassen et al., 1996 ). Lars Arendt‐Nielsen founded another centre at the department, the Centre for Neuroplasticity and Pain (CNAP), focusing on experimental tools for provocation and assessment of pain from skin, muscles and viscera in healthy volunteers and pain patients and the development of human biomarkers for the screening/profiling of new analgesics (Arendt‐Nielsen & Yarnitsky, 2009 ). He was the president of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) in the period 2018–2020. The research presently focuses on translational studies of musculoskeletal pain bridging the gap between basic animal findings and clinical manifestations of pain (Graven‐Nielsen & Arendt‐Nielsen, 2010 ; Graven‐Nielsen & Mense, 2001 ). Thomas Sinkjær Lars Arendt‐Nielsen

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A major Danish contribution to neuroscience came in the 18th century from (1669–1760). Born in Odense and a great‐nephew of Nicolaus Steno, he was educated as physician in Copenhagen. Aged 27, he left Denmark in the winter of 1697 to commence a study travel in Europe. He spent his first year at the University in Leiden before moving on to Paris to stay there for the rest of his life. Like his great‐uncle, Winsløw converted to Catholicism. He had been supported by a grant from Denmark, which was lost when converting. However, he soon integrated in the French system. In 1743, he was appointed as Professor anatomicus at Jardin du Roi. He was a remarkable anatomist dealing with investigation of details of the human body's organs related with function. His textbook was published in several languages and appeared in altogether 29 editions throughout 1732–1775. He investigated muscle function in relation to torticollis, brain structures in relation to motor function and the sympathetic ganglia in relation to gastrointestinal function. In his later years, he published a book on the definite signs of death as a safeguard against ‘apparent death’, an interest he had had since his youth. An article on this topic was also translated into several languages (Maar, 1912 ; Saad, 2021 ; Snorrason, 1969 ). Jacob Benignus Winsløw Exposition Anatomique de la Structure du Corps Humain

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He returned to Copenhagen in May 1945. At the recommendation of Danish scientists, including August Krogh and Niels Bohr, and economically supported by the Michaelsen Foundation, the Carlsberg Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Danish state, the Institute of Neurophysiology was built in the late 1940s and inaugurated in 1952 with Buchthal as director. He was later appointed professor of neurophysiology in 1955.

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