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Creating modern neuroscience : the revolutionary 1950s /
For modern scientists, history often starts with last week's journals and is regarded as largely a quaint interest compared with the advances of today. However, this book makes the case that, measured by major advances, the greatest decade in the history of brain studies was mid-twentieth centu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Why study history? Why the 1940s and 1950s?
- Genes: starting with DNA
- Signaling molecules: the first growth factor
- Signaling molecules: the first neurotransmitters in the brain
- Cell biology and the synapse
- Physiology: the action potential
- Physiology: synaptic potentials and receptor potentials
- Functional organization of neurons and dendrites
- Neural circuits: spinal cord, retina, invertebrate systems
- Neural circuits: cortical columns and cortical processing
- Neural systems: the neural basis of behavior
- Learning and memory: Donald Hobb, Brenda Milner and H.M.
- Neurology: foundations of brain imaging
- Neurosurgery: from Cushing to Penfield
- Neuropsychiatry: the breakthrough in psychopharmacology
- Theoretical neuroscience: the brain as a computer and the computer as a brain
- Summing up
- Appendix A: Resources
- Appendix B: Supporting material available on the web.