A hole in the head : more tales in the history of neuroscience / Charles G. Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Charles G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neurosciences--History.

Neurosciences.

Neurosciences and the arts.

Neuroscientists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (367 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys-from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells-in the history of brain sciences.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

I Early Neuroscience and Its Reverberations Today

1 A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation

2 Heart versus Brain: Galen and the Squealing Pig

3 The Fire That Comes from the Eye

4 The Discovery of Motor Cortex

II Neuroscience and Art

5 ''Psychosurgery'' in Renaissance Art

6 Left and Right in Science and Art with Marc H. Bornstein

7 Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Joan Deijman

III Scientists Who Were ''Before Their Time''

8 Claude Bernard and the Constancy of the Internal Environment

9 Bartolomeo Panizza and the Visual Brain with Michael Colombo and Arnaldo Colombo

10 Joseph Altman and Adult Neurogenesis: The Dogma of ''No New Neurons'' in the Adult Mammalian Brain

11 Donald R. Griffin: Echolocation and Animal Consciousness

12 The Genealogy of the ''Grandmother Cell''

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-29159-2

1-282-69450-2

9786612694509

0-262-25885-4

OCLC:

503568113