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Creating Modern Neuroscience : The Revolutionary 1950s
ISBN: 9780195391503 | 0195391500
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 10/1/2009
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For modern scientists, history often starts with last week's journals and is regarded as largely a quaint interest compared with the advances of today. However, this book makes the case that, measured by major advances, the greatest decade in the history of brain studies was mid-twentieth century, especially the 1950s. The first to focus on worldwide contributions in this period, the book ranges through dozens of astonishing discoveries at all levels of the brain, from DNA (Watson and Crick), through growth factors (Hamburger and Levi-Montalcin... MORE
| Introduction: Why Study History? Why the 1940s and 1950s? | p. 3 |
| Genes: Starting with DNA | p. 15 |
| Signaling Molecules: The First Growth Factor | p. 29 |
| Signaling Molecules: The First Neurotransmitters in the Brain | p. 39 |
| Cell Biology and the Synapse | p. 56 |
| Physiology: The Action Potential | p. 69 |
| Physiology: Synaptic Potentials and Receptor Potentials | p. 84 |
| Functional ... MORE | p. 100 |
| Neural Circuits: Spinal Cord, Retina, Invertebrate Systems | p. 114 |
| Neural Circuits: Cortical Columns and Cortical Processing | p. 129 |
| Neural Systems: The Neural Basis of Behavior | p. 144 |
| Learning and Memory: Donald Hebb, Brenda Milner, and H.M. | p. 160 |
| Neurology: Foundations of Brain Imaging | p. 176 |
| Neurosurgery: From Cushing to Penfield | p. 193 |
| Neuropsychiatry: The Breakthrough in Psychopharmacology | p. 206 |
| Theoretical Neuroscience: The Brain as a Computer and the Computer as a Brain | p. 218 |
| Summing Up | p. 233 |
| Resources | p237 |
| Supporting Material Available on the Web | p. 239 |
| References | p. 243 |
| Index | p. 273 |
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