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NINDS at 50 : an incomplete history celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke / Lewis P. Rowland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rowland, Lewis P.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Neurology--United States--History.
- Neurology.
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (U.S.)--History.
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (U.S.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- NINDS at fifty
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Demos Medical Pub., c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- NINDS has been one of the most powerful motors that pulled and pushed the rise of modern neuroscience. This book was written in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the institute. Its history and the history of neurology and neuroscience are essentially one. Well written, and lavishly accompanied by photographs that span the last half-century, this book will be a welcome addition to the library of everyone in brain research and the clinical neurosciences. The first half is a history of the Institute, starting with the enabling legislation and concentrating on the people who made NINDS a
- Contents:
- Birth
- First steps
- Development
- Directors of NINDS
- The scientific directors
- Intramural program
- Extramural program
- Training
- Big tickets: collaborative and field studies
- Decade of the brain: David Mahoney and the Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives
- The voluntaries
- Five Lasker awards and six Nobels
- Seymour S. Kety, M.D.
- Louis Sokoloff, M.D.
- Nancy S. Wexler, Ph.D.
- Roscoe O. Brady, M.D.
- D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D.
- Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D.
- Celebrating the synapse
- Julius Axelrod, Ph.D.
- Arvid Carlsson, M.D.
- Paul Greengard, Ph.D.
- Eric R. Kandel, M.D.
- One brain science, genomics, the clinical neurosciences, and the future of NINDS
- A neuroscience timeline
- Fifty years of advances in neuroscience.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Bethesda, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, [2001].
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-97465-X
- 9786611974657
- 1-934559-34-2
- OCLC:
- 437177229
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