Andrew P. Wickens

A History of the Brain (eBook, ePUB)

From Stone Age surgery to modern neuroscience

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes how we have come to understand the brain throughout the ages, from prehistory and antiquity, to the establishment of the basic fundamentals of modern neuroscience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317744825
• Artikelnr.: 41939837

Autorenporträt

Andrew P. Wickens is Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. His main area of expertise is in biological psychology and neuroscience.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Head or Heart? The Ancient Search For The Soul 2. The Discovery of the
Nervous System 3. From Late Antiquity to the Renaissance: The Cell Doctrine
4. Searching for the Ghost in the Machine 5. A New Life Force: Animal
Electricity 6. The Rise and Fall of Phrenology 7. The Nerve Cell Laid Bare
8. The Return of the Reflex 9. The Cartography of the Cerebral Cortex 10.
The Rise of Psychiatry and Neurology 11. Solving the Mystery of the Nerve
Impulse 12. The Discovery of Chemical Neurotransmission 13. Neurosurgery
and Clinical Tales 14. Surveying the Last Fifty Years and Looking Ahead