Neuroscience : a historical introduction / Mitchell Glickstein.

By: Glickstein, MitchellMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (418 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262319492Subject(s): Neurosciences -- History | Neurology -- History | Brain -- PhysiologyGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Neuroscience : a historical introduction.DDC classification: 612.8/233 LOC classification: RC338 | .G55 2014Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Introduction -- Overview of the nervous system: structures and functions -- The structure of nerve cells and their supporting tissues -- Electrical transmission in the nervous system -- Chemical transmission and the mechanism of drug action -- Sensation -- Vision and the eye -- Vision: central mechanisms -- Audition -- Somesthesis and vestibular sense -- Chemical, heat, and electrical senses -- Reflexes -- Brain control of movement -- Learning and memory -- Motivation -- Language and the brain -- Neurological disease -- Personality and emotion -- Mental illness and the history of surgical and drug treatment -- Consciousness and the techniques for study of the human brain -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Overview of the nervous system: structures and functions -- The structure of nerve cells and their supporting tissues -- Electrical transmission in the nervous system -- Chemical transmission and the mechanism of drug action -- Sensation -- Vision and the eye -- Vision: central mechanisms -- Audition -- Somesthesis and vestibular sense -- Chemical, heat, and electrical senses -- Reflexes -- Brain control of movement -- Learning and memory -- Motivation -- Language and the brain -- Neurological disease -- Personality and emotion -- Mental illness and the history of surgical and drug treatment -- Consciousness and the techniques for study of the human brain -- Conclusion.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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