Neuroscience : a historical introduction /
Glickstein, Mitchell.
Neuroscience : a historical introduction / Mitchell Glickstein. - viii, 407 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780262026802
2013021935
Neurosciences--History.
Neurology--History.
Brain--Physiology.
RC338 / .G55 2014
612.8/233
Neuroscience : a historical introduction / Mitchell Glickstein. - viii, 407 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780262026802
2013021935
Neurosciences--History.
Neurology--History.
Brain--Physiology.
RC338 / .G55 2014
612.8/233