Discoveries in the Human Brain. Neuroscience Prehistory, Brain Structure, and Function.

MARSHALL, Louise H. & Horace W. MAGOUN:

ISBN 10: 0896034356 / ISBN 13: 9780896034358

Edité par Totowa: Humana Press, 1998., 1998

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First Edition. xi, 322 pp, 1 leaf (vitae); 4 color plates; figs. Original cloth, 4to. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket. "This engaging and engrossing history of the brain and the emergence of modern neuroscience chronicles the many significant people and events that gradually produced today's understanding of brain anatomy and physiology. The book traces this unfolding story from the first findings of gross neuroanatomy in the ancient world to the functional analysis of the electrophysiology of nerve impulses; from the early discoveries of the existence and operations of the central nervous system to, finally, the development in brain chemistry and pharmacology that have now brought us to neural networks and brain modeling. Along the way it offers numerous historic and rare plates, a rich tapestry of quotations from primary sources, and concise summaries of the pathbreaking research that shaped and determined modern neuroscience" (Humana Press Web site).

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• Titre: Discoveries in the Human Brain. Neuroscience Prehistory, Brain Structure, and Function.
• Éditeur: Totowa: Humana Press, 1998.
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0896034356
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780896034358
• Reliure: Couverture rigide
• Édition: Edition originale
• Impression: 1er tirage
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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170u can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. 1 -Robert Frost topics that he judged to be important in brain his- From the last years of the second millennium, tory leading into the end of the century, and was we can look back on antecedent events in neuro- undertaken in response to the enthusiasm gener- science with amazement that so much of modern ated by exhibition at several national and interna- biomedical science was anticipated, or even said or done, in an earlier time. That surprise can be tional meetings of a series oflarge posters for which matched by appreciation for what the pioneer Magoun wrote a 27-page brochure. The posters investigators, with no inkling that they were creat- were viewed by a multitude of young neuroscien- ing a discipline, contributed to its emergence as a tists who wanted more, as well as by mature inves- productive force in human progress. In today's tigators who were warmly pleased to see familiar names and faces from the past. The acclaim was reductionist atmosphere, in which research at the molecular level is producing breathtaking new accompanied by a veritable deluge of requests for knowledge throughout biology, the student may an illustrated, expanded publication.