The advance of neuroscience : twelve topics from the Victorian era to today /

Neuroscience, like psychology, has a short history but a long past. Although the mind-body relationship has been studied for a long time, it is only in the last fifty years that the term "neuroscience" has been applied to the academic disciplines focusing on brain and behavior. This book e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmied, Lori A., 1958- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
Temas:
Neurosciences > History.
Brain.
Neurosciences > history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Brain
Psychotropic Drugs > adverse effects
Neurosciences > Histoire.
Médecine > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 21e siècle.
Cerveau.
brains.
MEDICAL > Physiology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Neurosciences.
United States
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; The Brain; 1. The New Phrenology; 2. The Double Brain; 3. "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream"; 4. Bad Vibrations: Music on the Brain; Drugs and Behavior; 5. Victorian Explorations of Psychoactive Drugs; 6. LSD Redux: Hallucinogens; 7. The Poppy's Curse: Opiates; Applied Neuroscience; 8. You Are What You Eat: Gut and Brain; 9. "The Heinous Sin": Viagra; 10. What's Your Type? Typologies; 11. Detoxing the Brain; 12. The "Rest Cure" Revisited; Conclusion; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index

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