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Creating modern neuroscience : the revolutionary 1950s / Gordon M. Shepherd.
LIBRA RC338 .S54 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shepherd, Gordon M., 1933-2022.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurosciences--History--20th century.
- Neurosciences.
- Neurosciences--history.
- Brain--physiology.
- History, 20th Century.
- History.
- Medical Subjects:
- Neurosciences--history.
- Brain--physiology.
- History, 20th Century.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 291 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Why Study History? Why the 1940s and 1950s? 3
- 2 Genes: Starting with DNA 15
- 3 Signaling Molecules: The First Growth Factor 29
- 4 Signaling Molecules: The First Neurotransmitters in the Brain 39
- 5 Cell Biology and the Synapse 56
- 6 Physiology: The Action Potential 69
- 7 Physiology: Synaptic Potentials and Receptor Potentials 84
- 8 Functional Organization of Neurons and Dendrites 100
- 9 Neural Circuits: Spinal Cord, Retina, Invertebrate Systems 114
- 10 Neural Circuits: Cortical Columns and Cortical Processing 129
- 11 Neural Systems: The Neural Basis of Behavior 144
- 12 Learning and Memory: Donald Hebb, Brenda Milner, and H.M. 160
- 13 Neurology: Foundations of Brain Imaging 176
- 14 Neurosurgery: From Cushing to Penfield 193
- 15 Neuropsychiatry: The Breakthrough in Psychopharmacology 206
- 16 Theoretical Neuroscience: The Brain as a Computer and the Computer as a Brain 218
- 17 Summing Up 233.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195391503
- 0195391500
- OCLC:
- 303922278
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