14 records matched your query       

Author:

Finger, Stanley.

Title:

Origins of neuroscience : a history of explorations into brain function / Stanley Finger.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2001, c1994

Description:

xviii, 462 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Neurosciences--history.
Neurology--history
Brain--History.--History.

Notes:

"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2001"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The brain in antiquity -- Changing concepts of brain function -- The era of cortical localization -- Holism and the critics of cortical localization -- Vision : from antiquity through the Renaissance -- Post-Renaissance visual anatomy and physiology -- Color vision -- The ear and theories of hearing -- Audition and the central nervous system -- The cutaneous senses -- Pain -- Gustation -- Olfaction -- The pyramidal system and the motor cortex -- The cerebellum and the corpus striatum -- Some movement disorders -- The process of sleep -- The nature of dreaming -- Theories of emotion from Democritus to William James -- Defining and controlling the circuits of emotion -- Intellect and the brain -- The frontal lobes and intellect -- The nature of the memory trace -- The neuropathology of memory -- Speech and language -- The emergence of the concept of cerebral dominance -- Expansion of the concept of cerebral dominance -- Treatments and therapies : from antiquity through the seventeenth century -- Treatments and therapies : from 1700 to World War I.

ISBN:

9780195146943 (pbk.)
0195146948 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)48176610

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Ankeny)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)