Minds behind the brain [[electronic resource] ] : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries / / Stanley Finger

• Autore: Finger Stanley
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (379 p.)
• Disciplina: 612.8209
• Soggetto topico: Neurosciences - History; Brain - Research - History
• Note generali: Originally published: 2000.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 Vesalius: The New ""Human"" Neuroanatomy 6. Rene 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 Edward Hitzig: The Experimentalists Map the Cerebral Cortex 12. Je
• Titolo autorizzato: Minds behind the brain
• ISBN: 0-19-518182-4; 0-19-802468-1; 1-280-70421-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910792250603321
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