Stories
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The mystery of the malignant brain
In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.
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The anatomy of a brain dissection
Dissecting the brain after death not only helps confirm a diagnosis, but it can also teach us so much more about the symptoms and causes of brain diseases and how to treat them.
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The shape of thought
Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.
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Can isolation lead to manipulation?
Military-funded researchers wanted to know if isolation techniques could facilitate brainwashing. One neuroscientist suggested that it might improve our own control over our minds.
Catalogue
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[Box of papers given at the Symposium on the history and philosophy of knowledge of the brain and its functions, London, 1957].
Symposium on the History and Philosophy of Knowledge of the Brain and its Functions (1957 : London, England)Date: [between 1950 and 1959?]- Books
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On the position of the motor centres in the brain in regard to the nutritive and social functions / by T. Lauder Brunton.
Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.Date: [1882]- Books
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On the minute structure of the brain in the chimpanzee, and of the human idiot, compared with that of the perfect brain of man : with some reflections on the cerebral functions / by James Macartney.
Macartney, James, 1770-1843.Date: 1842- Film
The mid-brain infant.
Date: 1925 / 1960- Videos
Nerves.
Date: 1996