A hole in the head : more tales in the history of neuroscience / Charles G. Gross.
Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys-from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells-in the history of brain sciences.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; I Early Neuroscience and Its Reverberations Today; 1 A Hole in the Head: A History of Trepanation; 2 Heart versus Brain: Galen and the Squealing Pig; 3 The Fire That Comes from the Eye; 4 The Discovery of Motor Cortex; II Neuroscience and Art; 5 ''Psychosurgery'' in Renaissance Art; 6 Left and Right in Science and Art with Marc H. Bornstein; 7 Rembrandt's The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Joan Deijman; III Scientists Who Were ''Before Their Time''; 8 Claude Bernard and the Constancy of the Internal Environment.
- 9 Bartolomeo Panizza and the Visual Brain with Michael Colombo and Arnaldo Colombo10 Joseph Altman and Adult Neurogenesis: The Dogma of ''No New Neurons'' in the Adult Mammalian Brain; 11 Donald R. Griffin: Echolocation and Animal Consciousness; 12 The Genealogy of the ''Grandmother Cell''; References; Index.