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Autore |
Gross Charles G |
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Titolo |
A hole in the head : more tales in the history of neuroscience / / Charles G. Gross |
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Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-262-29159-2 |
1-282-69450-2 |
9786612694509 |
0-262-25885-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (367 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Neurosciences - History |
Neurosciences and the arts |
Neuroscientists |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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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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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I Early Neuroscience and Its Reverberations Today -- 1 A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation -- 2 Heart versus Brain: Galen and the Squealing Pig -- 3 The Fire That Comes from the Eye -- 4 The Discovery of Motor Cortex -- II Neuroscience and Art -- 5 ''Psychosurgery'' in Renaissance Art -- 6 Left and Right in Science and Art with Marc H. Bornstein -- 7 Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Joan Deijman -- III Scientists Who Were ''Before Their Time'' -- 8 Claude Bernard and the Constancy of the Internal Environment -- 9 Bartolomeo Panizza and the Visual Brain with Michael Colombo and Arnaldo Colombo -- 10 Joseph Altman and Adult Neurogenesis: The Dogma of ''No New Neurons'' in the Adult Mammalian Brain -- 11 Donald R. Griffin: Echolocation and Animal Consciousness -- 12 The Genealogy of the ''Grandmother Cell'' -- References -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys-from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells-in the history of brain sciences. |
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