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Autore |
Finger Stanley |
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Minds behind the brain : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries / / Stanley Finger |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-518182-4 |
0-19-802468-1 |
1-280-70421-7 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (379 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Neurosciences - History |
Brain - Research - History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Originally published: 2000. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction: A Voyage Across Time; 2 An Ancient Egyptian Physician: The Dawn of Neurology; 3 Hippocrates: The Brain as the Organ of Mind; 4 Galen: The Birth of Experimentation; 5 Andreas Vesalius: The New ""Human"" Neuroanatomy; 6 René Descartes: The Mind-Body Problem; 7 Thomas Willis: The Functional Organization of the Brain; 8 Luigi Galvani: Electricity and the Nerves; 9 Franz Joseph Gall: The Cerebral Organs of Mind; 10 Paul Broca: Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance; 11 David Ferrier and Eduard Hitzig: The Experimentalists Map the Cerebral Cortex |
12 Jean-Martin Charcot: Clinical Neurology Comes of Age13 Santiago Ramón y Cajal: From Nerve Nets to Neuron Doctrine; 14 Charles Scott Sherrington: The Integrated Nervous System; 15 Edgar D. Adrian: Coding in the Nervous System; 16 Otto Loewi and Henry Dale: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters; 17 Roger W. Sperry and Rita Levi-Montalcini: From Neural Growth to ""Split Brains""; 18 Pioneers and Discoveries in the Brain Sciences; Notes ; Index ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Preface 1. Introduction: A Voyage Across Time 2. An Ancient Egyptian Physician: The Dawn of Neurology 3. Hippocrates: The Brain as the Organ of the Mind 4. Galen: The Birth of Experimentation 5. Andreas |
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