Preface. 1. Introduction: A Voyage Across Time. 2. An Ancient Egyptian Physician: The Dawn of Neurology. 3. Hippocrates: The Brain as the Organ of the Mind. 4. Galen: The Birth of Experimentation. 5. Andreas Vesalius: The New "Human" Neuroanatomy. 6. Rene Descartes: The Mind-Body Problem. 7. Thomas Willis: The Functional Organization of the Brain. 8. Luigi Galvani: Electricity and the Nerves. 9. Franz Joseph Gall: The Cerebral Organs of Mind. 10. Paul Broca: Cortical Localization and Cerebral Dominance. 11. David Ferrier and Edward Hitzig: The Experimentalists Map the Cerebral Cortex. 12. Jean-Martin Charcot: Clinical Neurology Comes of Age. 13. Santiago Ramon Y Cajal: From Nerve Nets to Neuron Doctrine. 14. Charles Scott Sherrington: The Integrated Nervous System. 15. Edgar D. Adrian: Coding the Nervous System. 16. Otto Loewi and Henry Dale: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters. 17. Roger W. Sperry and Rita Levi-Montalcini: From Neural Growth to "Split Brains". 18. Pioneers and Discoveries in the Brain Sciences. Notes. Index
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