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Neuroscience : a historical introduction / Mitchell Glickstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glickstein, Mitchell.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurosciences--History.
- Neurosciences.
- Neurology--History.
- Neurology.
- Brain--Physiology.
- Brain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Overview of the nervous system: structures and functions
- The structure of nerve cells and their supporting tissues
- Electrical transmission in the nervous system
- Chemical transmission and the mechanism of drug action
- Sensation
- Vision and the eye
- Vision: central mechanisms
- Audition
- Somesthesis and vestibular sense
- Chemical, heat, and electrical senses
- Reflexes
- Brain control of movement
- Learning and memory
- Motivation
- Language and the brain
- Neurological disease
- Personality and emotion
- Mental illness and the history of surgical and drug treatment
- Consciousness and the techniques for study of the human brain
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-31949-7
- OCLC:
- 869281749
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