Minds Behind The Brain - Stanley Finger - A History Of The Pioneers And Their Discoveries.

Minds Behind The Brain - Stanley Finger - A History Of The Pioneers And Their Discoveries.

ISBN: 0-19-518182-4.

Preface

1. Introduction: A Voyage Across Time.

2. An Ancient Egyptian Physician: The Dawn of Neurology.

3. Hippocrates: The Brain as the Organ of the 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 Mind.

10. Paul Broca: Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance.

11. David Ferrier and Edward 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 the Nervous System.

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.

Notes.

Index.

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