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Author Wickens, Andrew P., author.

Title A history of the brain : from stone age surgery to modern neuroscience / Andrew P. Wickens.

Publication Information London : Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
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 Main Stock - Reference Only  Reference  612.82 WIC  AVAILABLE
 Main Stock  Book - 21-Day  612.82 WIC  DUE 09-04-24
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Description xiii, 389 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Head or heart? the ancient search for the soul -- The discovery of the nervous system -- From late Antiquity to the Renaissance: the cell -- Doctrine -- Searching for the ghost in the machine -- A new life force: animal electricity -- The rise and fall of phrenology -- The nerve cell laid bare -- The return of the reflex -- Mapping the cerebral cortex -- The rise of psychiatry and neurology -- Solving the mystery of the nerve impulse -- The discovery of chemical neurotransmission -- Neurosurgery and clinical tales -- Surveying the last fifty years and looking ahead.
Subject Brain -- History.
Neurosciences -- History.
ISBN 9781848723658
1848723652