Neuroscience : a historical introduction / Mitchell Glickstein.
By: Glickstein, Mitchell.
MIT PRESS 2014Description: viii, 407 pages : illustration ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780262026802 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): Brain -- Physiology | Neurology -- History | Neurosciences -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 612.8/233| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | RC338 .G55 2014 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000002536 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Overview of the nervous system: structures and functions -- The structure of nerve cells and their supporting tissues -- Electrical transmission in the nervous system -- Chemical transmission and the mechanism of drug action -- Sensation -- Vision and the eye -- Vision: central mechanisms -- Audition -- Somesthesis and vestibular sense -- Chemical, heat, and electrical senses -- Reflexes -- Brain control of movement -- Learning and memory -- Motivation -- Language and the brain -- Neurological disease -- Personality and emotion -- Mental illness and the history of surgical and drug treatment -- Consciousness and the techniques for study of the human brain -- Conclusion.