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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- Summary
- With over 350 illustrations, this volume traces the history of ideas about the functioning of the brain from its roots in the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the centuries into relatively modern times. Its emphasis is on the functions of the brain and how they came to be associated with specific brain regions and systems
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xviii, 462 p.
- Note
- "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2001"--T.p. verso
- 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
- 9780195146943
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- With over 350 illustrations, this volume traces the history of ideas about the functioning of the brain from its roots in the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the centuries into relatively modern times. Its emphasis is on the functions of the brain and how they came to be associated with specific brain regions and systems
- Cataloging source
- BDR
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Finger, Stanley
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QP353
- LC item number
- .F55 2001
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Neurosciences
- Neurology
- Brain
- Brain
- Neurology
- Neurosciences
- Hirnforschung
- Neuropsychologie
- Label
- Origins of neuroscience : a history of explorations into brain function, Stanley Finger
- Note
- "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2001"--T.p. verso
- 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
- 48176610
- Dimensions
- 28 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 462 p.
- Isbn
- 9780195146943
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)48176610
- Label
- Origins of neuroscience : a history of explorations into brain function, Stanley Finger
- Note
- "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2001"--T.p. verso
- 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
- 48176610
- Dimensions
- 28 cm
- Extent
- xviii, 462 p.
- Isbn
- 9780195146943
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)48176610
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