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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822398703321

Autore

Gross Charles G

Titolo

A hole in the head : more tales in the history of neuroscience / / Charles G. Gross

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009

ISBN

0-262-29159-2

1-282-69450-2

9786612694509

0-262-25885-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (367 p.)

Disciplina

616.80092/2

Soggetti

Neurosciences - History

Neurosciences and the arts

Neuroscientists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.