
Minds behind the Brain
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: A Voyage Across Time
- 2 An Ancient Egyptian Physician: The Dawn of Neurology
- 3 Hippocrates: The Brain as the Organ of Mind
- 4 Galen: The Birth of Experimentation
- 5 Andreas Vesalius: The New "Human" Neuroanatomy
- 6 René Descartes: The Mind-Body Problem
- 7 Thomas Willis: The Functional Organization of the Brain
- 8 Luigi Galvani: Electricity and the Nerves
- 9 Franz Joseph Gall: The Cerebral Organs of Mind
- 10 Paul Broca: Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance
- 11 David Ferrier and Eduard Hitzig: The Experimentalists Map the Cerebral Cortex
- 12 Jean-Martin Charcot: Clinical Neurology Comes of Age
- 13 Santiago Ramón y Cajal: From Nerve Nets to Neuron Doctrine
- 14 Charles Scott Sherrington: The Integrated Nervous System
- 15 Edgar D. Adrian: Coding in the Nervous System
- 16 Otto Loewi and Henry Dale: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters
- 17 Roger W. Sperry and Rita Levi-Montalcini: From Neural Growth to "Split Brains
- 18 Pioneers and Discoveries in the Brain Sciences
- Notes
- Index
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