Neuroscience : a historical introduction / Mitchell Glickstein.
Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]Description: viii, 407 pages : illustration ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780262026802
- 612.8/233 23
- RC338 .G55 2014
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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.
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