Alan McComas

Galvani's Spark (eBook, ePUB)

The Story of the Nerve Impulse

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Galvani's Spark describes the gradual understanding of the nerve impulse--the basis of all thoughts, sensations and actions. Proceeding from a chance observation on a frog leg, to studies on squid giant axons and bacteria, this book concludes with the increasing realization that ion channells are responsible for a variety of clinical disorders. Written by a neurophysiologist, the book provides portraits of some of the greatest names in medical science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199395958
• Artikelnr.: 72269777

Autorenporträt

Dr. Alan J. McComas was born in Bruce Rock in Western Australia and immigrated to the United Kingdom where he attended Great Yarmouth Grammar School. He received both his BSc in physiology and MBBS from Durham University in the UK and was trained at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne, the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases in London, and the Department of Physiology at the University College London. After successive positions at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1971 he became Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. In 1988, he also became the Founding Chair in the Department of Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University. Since 1996 he has held the position of Emeritus Professor of Medicine. Dr. McComas has pursued a successful career in medicine and physiology. His research accomplishments include some of the earliest microelectrode studies of muscle diseases, the electrophysiological estimation of numbers of human motor nerve fibers, and, more recently, the demonstration that magnetic stimulation of the brain may abort migraine attacks. In 2001, he achieved the Distinguished Researcher Award of the American Association of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. He was also awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2005. On two occasions, he has been peer-ranked in the top 2% of doctors in North America. He has authored or coauthored seven books.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Spark
Chapter 3: Catching Up
Chapter 4: The Anatomist's Eye
Chapter 5: Cambridge, 1904. The Engineer
Chapter 6: The Cathode Ray Oscilloscope
Chapter 7: The Code
Chapter 8: Excitation and Inhibition
Chapter 9: The Messengers
Chapter 10: The Squid Giant Axon
Chapter 11: The Neuromuscular Junction
Chapter 12: The Giant Axon Impaled
Chapter 13: The War Years
Chapter 14: Sodium Unmasked
Chapter 15: The Voltage Clamp
Chapter 16: Aftermath
Chapter 17: Muscle: the New Physiology
Chapter 18: More Triumphs with Microelectrodes
Chapter 19: The Single Ion Channel
Chapter 20: Myotonic Goats and Migraines
Chapter 21: The Swinging Gate
Chapter 22: Departures
Chapter 23: Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index