Participation of Neurosurgery in the Basic Neurosciences as Documented in the Annual Volumes of the Zentralblatt für Neurochirurgie around 1950

The proportion of basic neuroscientific contributions in the <i>Zentralblatt für Neurochirurgie</i> in volumes 9, 10, and 11, which had been published from 1949 to 1951, thus available to the specialist public nationally and internationally during the founding phase of the German Society of Neurosurgery (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie/DGNC), was examined. The results of the study indicate a high level of basic neuroscientific contributions, therefore reflecting a strong interest in the corresponding fundamentals of clinical neurosurgery.