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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Description: xiii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781848723641 (hbk.)
  • 1848723644 (hbk.)
  • 9781848723658 (pbk.)
  • 1848723652 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 612.8/2 WIC 23
LOC classification:
  • QP376 .W485 2015
Contents:
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.
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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.

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