
Aranzio's Seahorse and the Search for Memory and Consciousness
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- Part I: Memory
- 1: The undisturbed seahorse. (Europe, 16th-20th centuries).
- 2: A portentous crossing. (Montreal, 1944-1948: Donald Hebb, Peter and Brenda Milner).
- 3: Graduate studies at MNI. (Montreal, 1948-1954: Peter and Brenda Milner, James Olds, Wilder Penfield, Herbert Jasper).
- 4: Bold surgeon and compliant patient. (Hartford (Connecticut), 1953: William Scoville, Brenda Milner, Henry Molaison).
- 5: Triumph and an unprovoked attack. (Montreal, London, 1957; Wilder Penfield, Francis Walshe).
- 6: The path to psychiatry. (New York, 1957: Eric Kandel).
- 7: A trip to Australia. (Oslo, Canberra, 1961: Per Andersen, John Eccles).
- 8: Taking stock. (Montreal, 1960: Brenda Milner).
- 9: Visual focus. (Cambridge (Massachusetts), 1962, Stephen Kuffler, David Hubel, Torsten Wiesel).
- 10: Enter the giant sea slug. (Paris, 1962: Eric Kandel, Ladislav Tauc).
- 11: Human neurons--success and disappointment. (Paris, Uppsala, 1960s: Denise Albe-Fessard, Karl-Erik Hagbarth).
- 12: Human neurons--success and disappointment. (Paris, Uppsala, 1960s: Denise Albe-Fessard, Karl-Erik Hagbarth).
- 13: Return of the slug. (New York, 1965: Eric Kandel).
- 14: Polish insights. (Warsaw, 1968: Jerzy Konorski).
- 15: Continuing excitation in Norway. (Oslo, 1968: Terje Lømo, Timothy Bliss).
- 16: Revelation on Gower Street. (London, 1971: Patrick Wall, John O'Keefe).
- 17: Mathematics and the hippocampus. (Cambridge (UK), 1971: David Marr).
- 18: 1980: departures.
- 19: Hidden faces. (Oxford, New York: Edmund Rolls, Eric Kandel).
- 20: More than a headache. (London, 1985: Clive and Deborah Wearing).
- 21: Unexpectedly, a grid. (London, Oslo, 1996: Edvard and May-Britt Moser).
- 22: A telephone call. (Stockholm, New York, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 2000: Eric Kandel).
- 23: Death and disorder. (Bickford (Connecticut), San Diego, 2008: Henry Molaison, Suzanne Corkin, Jacopo Annese).
- 24: Jennifer Aniston discovered. (Los Angeles, 2005. Itzhak Fried, Christof Koch, Rodrigo Quian Quiroga).
- 25: New cells or not? (1983--present, New York, Boston, Princeton, New Haven, La Jolla: Fernando Nottebohn, Joseph Altman, Michael Kaplan, Elizabeth Gould, Pasko Rakic, Fred Gage).
- 26: Neurons that glow. (Toronto, Cambridge (Massachusetts), 2020: Sheena Josselyn, Susuma Tonegawa).
- 27: Summary.
- Part II: The Evolution of Consciousness
- 28: Preamble.
- 29: Definition of consciousness.
- 30: Theories of consciousness.
- 31: Recognition of limbic system within brain.
- 32: Recognition of limbic system within brain.
- 33: Clinical evidence of hippocampal (limbic) involvement in consciousness
- 34: Animal evidence consistent with consciousness generation in limbic system (rather than cortex).
- 35: Animal evidence consistent with consciousness generation in limbic system (rather than cortex).
- 36: The evolutionary argument.
- 37: The minimum time argument.
- 38: Clive Wearing and Henry Molaison reconsidered.
- 39: Role of the amygdala.
- 40: Role of the non-hippocampal cortex.
- 41: Back to the hippocampus.
- 42: The numbers game
- 43: Speculations on spatial maps and other issues.
- 44: Final note: the multi-tasking hippocampus.
- 45: Recapitulation and synthesis
- 46: Epilogue
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