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The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, Volume 1
 
 

The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, Volume 1 [Hardcover]

Larry R. Squire (Editor)


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April 1, 1998 0126603014 978-0126603019 1
This book is the inaugural volume of autobiographical essays by distinguished senior neuroscientists; it is the first collection of neuroscience writing that is primarily autobiographical. As neuroscience is a young discipline, the contributors to this volume are truly pioneers of scientific research on the brain and spinal cord. This collection of fascinating essays should inform and inspire students and working scientists alike. The general reader interested in science may also find the essays absorbing, as they are essentially human stories about commitment and the pursuit of knowledge.
The contributors included in this volume are: Denise Albe-Fessard, Julius Axelrod, Peter O. Bishop, Theodore H. Bullock, Irving T. Diamond,
Robert Galambos, Viktor Hamburger, Sir Alan L. Hodgkin, David H. Hubel, Herbert H. Jasper, Sir Bernard Katz, Seymour S. Kety, Benjamin Libet, Louis Sokoloff, James M. Sprague, Curt von Euler and John Z. Young.

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* First collection of neuroscience writing that is primarily autobiographical
* Contributors are senior neuroscientists who are pioneers in the field

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"Anyone interested in the history of science in this century will find the 17 autobiographical essays collected in volume one of The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography rich in both facts and in the sociology of science... The book, edited by Larry Squire, a former president of the Society for Neuroscience, was conceived to inform and inspire students and working scientists alike... The essays represent a range of interests and activities as diverse as the field their authors helped build... Above all this book is a treasure of the history, ideas, innovations, and politics that coalesced to produce, and still color, current neuroscience. Anyone entering this field should find the volume valuable for this reason alone."
--SCIENCE

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Fourth volume in a series of autobiographies by notable people in the field of neuroscience. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 607 pages
  • Publisher: Academic Press; 1 edition (April 1, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0126603014
  • ISBN-13: 978-0126603019
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,181,183 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I was born in Paris in 1916 during World War I (the Great War). Read the first page
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isolated frog brain, brain research organization, two receptive fields, cerebral venous blood, optimal spatial frequency, local functional activity, vertical lobe, giant nerve fibres, unconscious mental functions, salamander rods, schematic eye, giant fibers, nondominant eye, axon sheath, pulvinar nucleus, giant nerve fibers, lateral motor columns, geniculate cells, electric excitation, chemical drive, single muscle fibres, position disparities, cardiac ganglion, spontaneous motility, spinal ganglia
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New York, United States, Royal Society, Institut Marey, University of Chicago, Woods Hole, University of California, University of Pennsylvania, Walter Reed, Brain Res, Nobel Prize, Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol, National Academy of Sciences, Proc Natl Acad Sci, San Francisco, Comp Neurol, Johns Hopkins, Clin Invest, Karolinska Institute, Soc Lond, Los Angeles, Ragnar Granit, Trinity College, Washington University, Ralph Gerard
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