MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01590cam a2200289 i 4500
001 2013021935
003 DLC
005 20140702133803.0
008 130605s2014 maua b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013021935
020 $a9780262026802 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aRC338$b.G55 2014
082 00 $a612.8/233$223
100 1 $aGlickstein, Mitchell.
245 10 $aNeuroscience :$ba historical introduction /$cMitchell Glickstein.
264 1 $aCambridge, Massachusetts :$bThe MIT Press,$c[2014]
300 $aviii, 407 pages :$billustration ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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.
650 0 $aNeurosciences$xHistory.
650 0 $aNeurology$xHistory.
650 0 $aBrain$xPhysiology.