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The Resource Origins of neuroscience : a history of explorations into brain function, Stanley Finger

Origins of neuroscience : a history of explorations into brain function, Stanley Finger

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Publication
Extent
xviii, 462 p.
Contents
  • The brain in antiquity
  • Changing concepts of brain function
  • The era of cortical localization
  • Holism and the critics of cortical localization
  • Vision : from antiquity through the Renaissance
  • Post-Renaissance visual anatomy and physiology
  • Color vision
  • The ear and theories of hearing
  • Audition and the central nervous system
  • The cutaneous senses
  • Pain
  • Gustation
  • Olfaction
  • The pyramidal system and the motor cortex
  • The cerebellum and the corpus striatum
  • Some movement disorders
  • The process of sleep
  • The nature of dreaming
  • Theories of emotion from Democritus to William James
  • Defining and controlling the circuits of emotion
  • Intellect and the brain
  • The frontal lobes and intellect
  • The nature of the memory trace
  • The neuropathology of memory
  • Speech and language
  • The emergence of the concept of cerebral dominance
  • Expansion of the concept of cerebral dominance
  • Treatments and therapies : from antiquity through the seventeenth century
  • Treatments and therapies : from 1700 to World War I
Isbn
9780195065039
Instance
Label
Origins of neuroscience : a history of explorations into brain function
Title
Origins of neuroscience
Title remainder
a history of explorations into brain function
Statement of responsibility
Stanley Finger
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Cataloging source
DNLM/DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Finger, Stanley
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
QP353
LC item number
.F55 1994
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Neurosciences
  • Neurology
  • Brain
Label
Origins of neuroscience : a history of explorations into brain function, Stanley Finger
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
The brain in antiquity -- Changing concepts of brain function -- The era of cortical localization -- Holism and the critics of cortical localization -- Vision : from antiquity through the Renaissance -- Post-Renaissance visual anatomy and physiology -- Color vision -- The ear and theories of hearing -- Audition and the central nervous system -- The cutaneous senses -- Pain -- Gustation -- Olfaction -- The pyramidal system and the motor cortex -- The cerebellum and the corpus striatum -- Some movement disorders -- The process of sleep -- The nature of dreaming -- Theories of emotion from Democritus to William James -- Defining and controlling the circuits of emotion -- Intellect and the brain -- The frontal lobes and intellect -- The nature of the memory trace -- The neuropathology of memory -- Speech and language -- The emergence of the concept of cerebral dominance -- Expansion of the concept of cerebral dominance -- Treatments and therapies : from antiquity through the seventeenth century -- Treatments and therapies : from 1700 to World War I
Control code
ocm27151391
Dimensions
29 cm.
Extent
xviii, 462 p.
Isbn
9780195065039
Isbn Type
(alk. paper)
Lccn
92048265
Note
$75.00 h
Other physical details
ill.
Label
Origins of neuroscience : a history of explorations into brain function, Stanley Finger
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
The brain in antiquity -- Changing concepts of brain function -- The era of cortical localization -- Holism and the critics of cortical localization -- Vision : from antiquity through the Renaissance -- Post-Renaissance visual anatomy and physiology -- Color vision -- The ear and theories of hearing -- Audition and the central nervous system -- The cutaneous senses -- Pain -- Gustation -- Olfaction -- The pyramidal system and the motor cortex -- The cerebellum and the corpus striatum -- Some movement disorders -- The process of sleep -- The nature of dreaming -- Theories of emotion from Democritus to William James -- Defining and controlling the circuits of emotion -- Intellect and the brain -- The frontal lobes and intellect -- The nature of the memory trace -- The neuropathology of memory -- Speech and language -- The emergence of the concept of cerebral dominance -- Expansion of the concept of cerebral dominance -- Treatments and therapies : from antiquity through the seventeenth century -- Treatments and therapies : from 1700 to World War I
Control code
ocm27151391
Dimensions
29 cm.
Extent
xviii, 462 p.
Isbn
9780195065039
Isbn Type
(alk. paper)
Lccn
92048265
Note
$75.00 h
Other physical details
ill.

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