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Minds behind the brain : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries / / Stanley Finger
| Minds behind the brain : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries / / Stanley Finger |
| Autore | Finger Stanley |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (379 p.) |
| Disciplina | 612.8209 |
| Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - History
Brain - Research - History |
| ISBN |
0-19-518182-4
0-19-802468-1 1-280-70421-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820933803321 |
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| Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2005 | ||
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Neuroscience : a historical introduction / / Mitchell Glickstein
| Neuroscience : a historical introduction / / Mitchell Glickstein |
| Autore | Glickstein Mitchell |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Disciplina | 612.8/233 |
| Soggetto topico |
Neurosciences - History
Neurology - History Brain - Physiology |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-262-31949-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- Overview of the nervous system: structures and functions -- The structure of nerve cells and their supporting tissues -- Electrical transmission in the nervous system -- Chemical transmission and the mechanism of drug action -- Sensation -- Vision and the eye -- Vision: central mechanisms -- Audition -- Somesthesis and vestibular sense -- Chemical, heat, and electrical senses -- Reflexes -- Brain control of movement -- Learning and memory -- Motivation -- Language and the brain -- Neurological disease -- Personality and emotion -- Mental illness and the history of surgical and drug treatment -- Consciousness and the techniques for study of the human brain -- Conclusion. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453170703321 |
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2014] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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