Neuroscience : a historical introduction / Mitchell Glickstein.

• 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.

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Neurosciences  -- History. (LCSH)

Neurology  -- History. (LCSH)

Brain  -- Physiology. (LCSH)

Neurosciences  -- Histoire. (Vedettes-matière)

Neurologie  -- Histoire. (Vedettes-matière)

Cerveau  -- Physiologie. (Vedettes-matière)

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Neurosciences  -- Histoire. (ram)

Cerveau  -- Physiologie. (ram)

Neurologie  -- Histoire. (ram)

Brain  -- Physiology. (fast)

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