Minds behind the brain
Subtitle: a history of the pioneers and their discoveries
By: Stanley Finger.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780195085716; 9780195181821
Subjects: Neurosciences -- History; Brain -- Research -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a voyage across time; title: An ancient Egyptian physician: the dawn of neurology; title: Hippocrates: the brain as the organ of mind; title: Galen: the birth of experimentation; title: Andreas Vesalius: the new "human" neuroanatomy; title: René Descartes: the mind-body problem; title: Thomas Willis: the functional organization of the brain; title: Luigi Galvani: electricity and the nerves; title: Franz Joseph Gall: the cerebral organs of mind; title: Paul Broca: cortical localization and cerebral dominace; title: David Ferrier and Eduard Hitzig: the experimentalists map the cerebral cortex; title: Jean-Martin Charcot: clinical neurology comes of age; title: Santiago Ramón y Cajal: from nerve nets to neuron doctrine; title: Charles Scott Sherrington: the integrated nervous system; title: Edgar D. Adrain: coding the nervous system; title: Otto Loewi and Henry Dale: the discovery of neurotransmitters; title: Roger W. Sperry and Rita Levi-Montalcini: from neural growth to "split brains"; title: Pioneers and discoveries in the brain sciences.