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Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
Language
English
Pages
364

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Neurosciences, Brain, Research, History, Brain, research, History, modern

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Minds Behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries
2004, Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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Minds behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries
December 1, 2004, Oxford University Press, USA
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2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
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Table of Contents

Introduction: a voyage across time
An ancient Egyptian physician: the dawn of neurology
Hippocrates: the brain as the organ of mind
Galen: the birth of experimentation
Andreas Vesalius: the new "human" neuroanatomy
René Descartes: the mind-body problem
Thomas Willis: the functional organization of the brain
Luigi Galvani: electricity and the nerves
Franz Joseph Gall: the cerebral organs of mind
Paul Broca: cortical localization and cerebral dominace
David Ferrier and Eduard Hitzig: the experimentalists map the cerebral cortex
Jean-Martin Charcot: clinical neurology comes of age
Santiago Ramón y Cajal: from nerve nets to neuron doctrine
Charles Scott Sherrington: the integrated nervous system
Edgar D. Adrain: coding the nervous system
Otto Loewi and Henry Dale: the discovery of neurotransmitters
Roger W. Sperry and Rita Levi-Montalcini: from neural growth to "split brains"
Pioneers and discoveries in the brain sciences.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-347) and index.

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Library of Congress
QP353 .F548 2000, QP353.F548 2005, QP353.F548 2000, QP 353 F549 2000

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Pagination
xii, 364 p. :
Number of pages
364

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Open Library
OL15988528M
Internet Archive
mindsbehindbrain0000fing
ISBN 10
0195181824, 019508571X
ISBN 13
9780195085716, 9780195181821
LCCN
99017110, 98042401
OCLC/WorldCat
40683698
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1663776
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521475

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