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Neurosciences, Brain, Research, History, Brain, research, History, modern, Physicians, PhysiologyShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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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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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
2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
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Minds behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries
December 15, 1999, 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-347) and index.
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