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Nineteenth-Century Origins of Neuroscientific Concepts
Häftad, 1992
471 kr
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This book traces the seminal ideas that emerged in the first half of the nineteenth century, when the fundamental concepts of modern neurophysiology and anatomy were formulated in a period of unprecedented scientific discovery.
Medicine and Modernism
A Biography of Henry Head
Av L. S. Jacyna
Häftad, 2016
790 kr
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This is the first in-depth study of the English neurologist and polymath Sir Henry Head (1861-1940). Head bridged the gap between science and the arts. He was a published poet who had close links with such figures as Thomas Hardy and Siegfried Sassoon. His research into the nervous system and the …
Lost Words
Narratives of Language and the Brain, 1825-1926
Av L. S. Jacyna
E-bok, 2009
834 kr
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In the mid-nineteenth century, physicians observed numerous cases in which individuals lost the ability to form spoken words, even as they remained sane and healthy in most other ways. By studying this condition, which came to be known as "aphasia," neurologists were able to show that functions of …