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Minds behind the brain a history of the pioneers and their discoveries

Stanley Finger

Oxford Oxford University Press New York c2000

Localização: FEA - Fac. Econ. Adm. Contab. e Atuária  ACERVO DELFIM NETTO  (A35.14.15 ) e outros locais(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Minds behind the brain a history of the pioneers and their discoveries
  • Autor: Stanley Finger
  • Assuntos: Neurosciences -- History; Brain -- Research -- History; NEUROLOGIA (PESQUISA HISTÓRIA); CÉREBRO (PESQUISA); NEUROFISIOLOGIA; SISTEMA NERVOSO; Physicians -- Biography; Brain -- physiology -- Biography; Neurosciences -- history -- Biography
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-347) and index
  • Descrição: 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 localiza tion 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
  • Editor: Oxford Oxford University Press New York
  • Data de criação/publicação: c2000
  • Formato: xii, 364 p. ill. 26 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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