Creating Modern Neuroscience: The Revolutionary 1950s

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Creating Modern Neuroscience: The Revolutionary 1950s
304 pages | Sep 22 2010 |ISBN: 0195391500 | PDF | 5.5 Mb
For modern scientists, history often starts with last week's journals and is regarded as largely a quaint interest compared with the advances of today. However, this book makes the case that, measured by major advances, the greatest decade in the history of brain studies was mid-twentieth century, especially the 1950s. The first to focus on worldwide contributions in this period, the book ranges through dozens of astonishing discoveries at all levels of the brain, from DNA (Watson and Crick), through growth factors (Hamburger and Levi-Montalcini), excitability (Hodgkin and Huxley)


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