Neuroscience : a historical introduction / Mitchell Glickstein.

  • Glickstein, Mitchell.
Date:
[2014]
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Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]

Physical description

viii, 407 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PG /GLI
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780262026802
  • 0262026805