Neuroscience : a historical introduction /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2014]
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Table of 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.