Portraits of the mind : visualizing the brain from antiquity to the 21st century / Carl Schoonover ; foreword by Jonah Lehrer.

  • Schoonover, Carl E.
Date:
2010
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

New York : Abrams, 2010.

Physical description

239 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Contributors

Contents

Early history : from Galen to Golgi / essay by Nicholas Wade -- The birth of modern neuroscience : Santiago Ramón y Cajal / essay by Javier DeFelipe -- After Cajal : from black and white to color / essay by Joshua R. Sanes -- Breaking the diffraction barrier : from cells to molecules / essay by Maryann E. Martone and Mark H. Ellisman -- Electricity in the brain / essay based on an interview with Michael Goldberg -- The brain as circuit / essay by Terrence Sejnowski -- From brain structure to brain function / essay by Joy Hirsch.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PA /SCH
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ISBN

  • 9780810990333
  • 0810990334