Minds behind the Brain: A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries (edition 2004)

by Stanley Finger

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Preface 1. Introduction: A Voyage Across Time 2. An Ancient Egyptian Physician: The Dawn of Neurology 3. Hippocrates: The Brain as the Organ of the Mind 4. Galen: The Birth of Experimentation 5. Andreas Vesalius: The New ""Human"" Neuroanatomy 6. Rene Descartes: The Mind-Body Problem 7. Thomas Willis: The Functional Organization of the Brain 8. Luigi Galvani: Electricity and the Nerves 9. Franz Joseph Gall: The Cerebral Organs of Mind 10. Paul Broca: Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance 11. David Ferrier and Edward Hitzig: The Experimentalists Map the Cerebral Cortex 12. Je… (more)

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Preface 1. Introduction: A Voyage Across Time 2. An Ancient Egyptian Physician: The Dawn of Neurology 3. Hippocrates: The Brain as the Organ of the Mind 4. Galen: The Birth of Experimentation 5. Andreas Vesalius: The New ""Human"" Neuroanatomy 6. Rene Descartes: The Mind-Body Problem 7. Thomas Willis: The Functional Organization of the Brain 8. Luigi Galvani: Electricity and the Nerves 9. Franz Joseph Gall: The Cerebral Organs of Mind 10. Paul Broca: Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance 11. David Ferrier and Edward Hitzig: The Experimentalists Map the Cerebral Cortex 12. Je

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