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Portraits of the mind : visualizing the brain from antiquity to the 21st century / Carl E. Schoonover ; foreword by Jonah Lehrer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schoonover, Carl E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brain--Anatomy--Atlases.
- Brain.
- Brain--Anatomy.
- Brain--Imaging.
- Brain--anatomy & histology.
- Neurosciences--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Brain--anatomy & histology.
- Neurosciences--history.
- Genre:
- Atlases.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Abrams, 2010.
- Contents:
- Early history : from Galen to Golgi / essay by Nicholas Wade
- The birth of modern neuroscience : Santiago Ramón y Cajal / essay by Javier DeFelipe
- After Cajal : from black and white to color / essay by Joshua R. Sanes
- Breaking the diffraction barrier : from cells to molecules / essay by Maryann E. Martone and Mark H. Ellisman
- Electricity in the brain / essay based on an interview with Michael Goldberg
- The brain as circuit / essay by Terrence Sejnowski
- From brain structure to brain function / essay by Joy Hirsch.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page 229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810990333
- 0810990334
- OCLC:
- 505419613
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