Minds behind the brain : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries
- Title
- Minds behind the brain : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries / Stanley Finger.
- Published by
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
- Author
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- Description
- xii, 364 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Subject
- 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.
- Call number
- JSF 01-51
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-347) and index.
- Author
- Finger, Stanley.
- Title
- Minds behind the brain : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries / Stanley Finger.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-347) and index.
- LCCN
- 99017110 98042401
- ISBN
- 019508571X (acid-free paper)
- Research call number
- JSF 01-51