Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin

This book is a journey to discover and rediscover famous and lesser known aspects of the birth of modern neuroscience in Turin, from pre-Enlightenment to the 1980s. The pioneering contributions of neuroscientists from Turin and working in Turin and how they shaped the national and international community are critically explored.

A brief selection of topics covered by The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin:
· Luigi Rolando''s neuroanatomical drawings
· Cesare Lombroso''s controversial stances on criminal anthropology
· Angelo Mosso''s pioneering ''neuroimaging'' experiments
· Ernesto Lugaro''s contributions to neuroplasticity and psychiatry
· Federico Kiesow and the development of experimental psychology in Europe
· Camillo Negro''s first clinical neurological movies
· Giuseppe Levi''s histological works and his mentorship
· Rita Levi Montalcini and her Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Nerve Growth Factor