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

Author/creator Finger, Stanley
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000.
Descriptionxii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
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Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [311]-347) and index.
LCCN 99017110 98042401
ISBN019508571X (acid-free paper)
ISBN9780195085716 (acid-free paper)
ISBN0195181824 (pbk.)
ISBN9780195181821 (pbk.)
Standard identifier# 9780195181826

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Joyner General Stacks QP 353 .F548 2000 ✔ Available Place Hold