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Minds behind the brain : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries

Author: Stanley Finger
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Traces the study of the brain from the ancient Egyptians, through the classical world of Hippocrates, the time of Descartes, and the era of Broca, to modern researchers such as Sperry, and examines their sources and tools.
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Genre/Form: Biography
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Finger, Stanley.
Minds behind the brain.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000
(OCoLC)606507935
Online version:
Finger, Stanley.
Minds behind the brain.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000
(OCoLC)607460408
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Stanley Finger
ISBN: 019508571X 9780195085716 0195181824 9780195181821
OCLC Number: 40683698
Description: xii, 364 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
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.
Responsibility: Stanley Finger.
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Traces the study of the brain from the ancient Egyptians, through the classical world of Hippocrates, the time of Descartes, and the era of Broca, to modern researchers such as Sperry, and examines their sources and tools.

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