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Minds behind the brain : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries / Stanley Finger.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005Description: 368 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0195181824 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.8209 22
Contents:
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. 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 the 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 age -- 13. Santiago Ramon y Cajal: from nerve nets to neuron doctrine -- 14. Charles Scott Sherrington: the integrated nervous system -- 15. Edgar D. Adrian: coding in the nervous s#stem -- 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.
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Originally published: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. 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 the 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 age -- 13. Santiago Ramon y Cajal: from nerve nets to neuron doctrine -- 14. Charles Scott Sherrington: the integrated nervous system -- 15. Edgar D. Adrian: coding in the nervous s#stem -- 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.

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