Neuroscience : a historical introduction /
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| Author / Creator: | Glickstein, Mitchell. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014] |
| Description: | viii, 407 pages : illustration ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9904613 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Overview of the Nervous System: Structures and Functions
- 3. The Structure of Nerve Cells and Their Supporting Tissues
- 4. Electrical Transmission in the Nervous System
- 5. Chemical Transmission and the Mechanism of Drug Action
- 6. Sensation
- 7. Vision and the Eye
- 8. Vision: Central Mechanisms
- 9. Audition
- 10. Somesthesis and Vestibular Sense
- 11. Chemical, Heat, and Electrical Senses
- 12. Reflexes
- 13. Brain Control of Movement
- 14. Learning and Memory
- 15. Motivation
- 16. Language and the Brain
- 17. Neurological Disease
- 18. Personality and Emotion
- 19. Mental Illness and the History of Surgical and Drug Treatment
- 20. Consciousness and the Techniques for Study of the Human Brain
- 21. Are We There Yet?
- Notes
- Further Readings
- References
- Index
