Minds behind the brain : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries / Stanley Finger.
| Author/creator | Finger, Stanley |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2000. |
| Description | xii, 364 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-347) and index. |
| LCCN | 99017110 98042401 |
| ISBN | 019508571X (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 9780195085716 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0195181824 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780195181821 (pbk.) |
| Standard identifier# | 9780195181826 |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyner | General Stacks | QP 353 .F548 2000 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |