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The Shocking History of Electric Fishes
This book looks at how three kinds of strongly electric fishes literally became "electrical", and how they helped to change the sciences and medicine. These fishes are the flat …
The Animal Spirit Doctrine and the Origins of Neurophysiology
How do we become aware of things and events in the outside world, and how does the brain control the muscular system and behavior? This book examines the history of Western …
Fine Arts, Neurology, and Neuroscience
This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields. This volume …
Brain, Mind and Medicine:
No books have been published on the practice of neuroscience in the eighteenth century, a time of transition and discovery in science and medicine. This volume explores …
Brain Injury and Recovery
The idea for the present volume grew from discussions that the four of us had among ourselves and with our colleagues at recent scientific meetings. All of us were impressed by the …
Brain Injury and Recovery
The idea for the present volume grew from discussions that the four of us had among ourselves and with our colleagues at recent scientific meetings. All of us were impressed by the …
Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives
Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives provides a broad and comprehensive discussion of history and new discoveries regarding music and the …
Recovery from Brain Damage
It has long been recognized that damage to the mammalian central nervous system may be followed by behavioral recovery, but only re cently has close attention been directed to …
Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Evolution, the Musical Brain, Medical Conditions, and Therapies
Did you ever ask whether music makes people smart, why a Parkinson patient's gait is improved with marching tunes, and whether Robert Schumann was suffering from schizophrenia or …
Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers
Having a phrenological 'head reading' was one of the most significant fads of the nineteenth century - a means for better knowing oneself and a guide for self-improvement. Samuel …
Trepanation
This volume will look at the history of trepanation, the identification of skulls, the tools used to make the cranial openings, and theories as to why trepanation might have been …
Fine Arts, Neurology, and Neuroscience
This volume on neuroscience, neurology, and the fine arts brings several disciplines together. It presents current thoughts and modern examples about how science, medicine and the …