Wickens, Andrew P. <br/><br/>
A history of the brain :  from stone age surgery to modern neuroscience / Andrew P. Wickens. 

 - xiii, 389 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781848723641 (hbk.) 1848723644 (hbk.) 9781848723658 (pbk.) 1848723652 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014021500 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Brain--History.<br/>Neurosciences--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QP376  / .W485 2015 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>612.8/2 WIC