Neuroscience : a historical introduction / Mitchell Glickstein.

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Published: 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.