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

• Autore: Gross Charles G
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 616.80092/2
• Soggetto topico: Neurosciences - History; Neurosciences and the arts; Neuroscientists
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A hole in the head
• ISBN: 0-262-29159-2; 1-282-69450-2; 9786612694509; 0-262-25885-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822398703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II