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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Brain function in health and disease / S. Iverson.
Date: 1993- Books
Brain function and metabolic disorders : the neurological effects of changes in hydrogen ion concentration / Barry Wyke.
Wyke, Barry.Date: 1963- Books
Brain function in old age : evaluation of changes and disorders / edited by F. Hoffmeister, Müller, in collaboration with H. P. Krause.
Bayer-Symposium 1978 : Grosse Ledder, Germany)Date: 1979- Books
Brain function : proceedings of the first conference, 1961 : cortical excitability and steady potentials : relations of basic research to space biology / editor, Mary A.B. Brazier.
Date: 1963- Books
Brain imaging and brain function / editor, Louis Sokoloff.
Date: [1985], ©1985