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

By: Wickens, Andrew P.
Hove, East Sussex PSYCHOLOGY PRESS c2015Description: xiii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.ISBN: 1848723644 (hbk.); 1848723652 (pbk.); 9781848723641 (hbk.); 9781848723658 (pbk.).Subject(s): Brain -- History | Neurosciences -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 612.8/2
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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On Shelf QP376 .W485 2015 (Browse shelf) Available AU0000000003038
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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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