Bibliograph

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A hole in the head, more tales in the history of neuroscience, Charles G. Gross

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-330) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A hole in the head

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Oclc number

503568113

Responsibility statement

Charles G. Gross

Sub title

more tales in the history of neuroscience

Summary

Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys-from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells-in the history of brain sciences

Table Of Contents

Preface; I Early Neuroscience and Its Reverberations Today; 1 A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation; 2 Heart versus Brain: Galen and the Squealing Pig; 3 The Fire That Comes from the Eye; 4 The Discovery of Motor Cortex; II Neuroscience and Art; 5 ''Psychosurgery'' in Renaissance Art; 6 Left and Right in Science and Art with Marc H. Bornstein; 7 Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Joan Deijman; III Scientists Who Were ''Before Their Time''; 8 Claude Bernard and the Constancy of the Internal Environment9 Bartolomeo Panizza and the Visual Brain with Michael Colombo and Arnaldo Colombo10 Joseph Altman and Adult Neurogenesis: The Dogma of ''No New Neurons'' in the Adult Mammalian Brain; 11 Donald R. Griffin: Echolocation and Animal Consciousness; 12 The Genealogy of the ''Grandmother Cell''; References; Index

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