Minds behind the brain : a history of the pioneers and their discoveries
Traza el estudio del cerebro de los antiguos egipcios, a través del mundo clásico de Hipócrates, los tiempos de Descartes, y la era de Broca, para los investigadores modernos, como Sperry, y examina sus fuentes y herramientas.
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- Introduction: a voyage across time
- An ancient Egyptian physician: the dawn of neurology
- Hippocrates: the brain as the organ of mind
- Galen: the birth of experimentation
- Andreas Vesalius: the new "human" neuroanatomy
- Rene Descartes: the mind-body problem
- Thomas Willis: the functional organization of the brain
- Luigi Galvani: electricity and the nerves
- Franz Joseph Gall: the cerebral organs of mind
- Paul Broca: cortical localization and cerebral dominace
- David Ferrier and Eduard Hitzig: the experimentalists map the cerebral cortex
- Jean-Martin Charcot: clinical neurology comes of age
- Santiago Ramon y Cajal: from nerve nets to neuron doctrine
- Charles Scott Sherrington: the integrated nervous system
- Edgar D. Adrain: coding the nervous system
- Otto Loewi and Henry Dale: the discovery of neurotransmitters
- Roger W. Sperry and Rita Levi-Montalcini: from neural growth to "split brains"
- Pioneers and discoveries in the brain sciences.