A history of the brain : from stone age surgery to modern neuroscience / Andrew P. Wickens.
Wickens, Andrew P.
A history of the brain : from stone age surgery to modern neuroscience / Andrew P. Wickens. - xiii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Head or heart? the ancient search for the soul -- The discovery of the nervous system -- From late Antiquity to the Renaissance: the cell -- Doctrine -- Searching for the ghost in the machine -- A new life force: animal electricity -- The rise and fall of phrenology -- The nerve cell laid bare -- The return of the reflex -- Mapping the cerebral cortex -- The rise of psychiatry and neurology -- Solving the mystery of the nerve impulse -- The discovery of chemical neurotransmission -- Neurosurgery and clinical tales -- Surveying the last fifty years and looking ahead.
9781848723641 (hbk.) 1848723644 (hbk.) 9781848723658 (pbk.) 1848723652 (pbk.)
2014021500
Brain--History.
Neurosciences--History.
QP376 / .W485 2015
612.8/2 WIC
A history of the brain : from stone age surgery to modern neuroscience / Andrew P. Wickens. - xiii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Head or heart? the ancient search for the soul -- The discovery of the nervous system -- From late Antiquity to the Renaissance: the cell -- Doctrine -- Searching for the ghost in the machine -- A new life force: animal electricity -- The rise and fall of phrenology -- The nerve cell laid bare -- The return of the reflex -- Mapping the cerebral cortex -- The rise of psychiatry and neurology -- Solving the mystery of the nerve impulse -- The discovery of chemical neurotransmission -- Neurosurgery and clinical tales -- Surveying the last fifty years and looking ahead.
9781848723641 (hbk.) 1848723644 (hbk.) 9781848723658 (pbk.) 1848723652 (pbk.)
2014021500
Brain--History.
Neurosciences--History.
QP376 / .W485 2015
612.8/2 WIC