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ISBN 13: 9780262013383
Author: Charles G Gross

Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleys—from trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cells—in the history of brain sciences. Neuroscientist Charles Gross has been interested in the history of his field since his days as an undergraduate. A Hole in the Head is the second collection of essays in which he illuminates the study of the brain with fascinating episodes from the past. This volume's tales range from the history of trepanation (drilling a hole in the skull) to neurosurgery as painted by Hieronymus Bosch to the discovery that bats navigate using echolocation. The emphasis is on blind alleys and errors as well as triumphs and discoveries, with ancient practices connected to recent developments and controversies. Gross first reaches back into the beginnings of neuroscience, then takes up the interaction of art and neuroscience, exploring, among other things, Rembrandt's “Anatomy Lesson” paintings, and finally, examines discoveries by scientists whose work was scorned in their own time but proven correct in later eras.

A Hole in the Head More Tales in the History of Neuroscience 1st Table of contents:

I  Early Neuroscience and Its Reverberations Today
1  A Hole in the Head: A Hi story of Trepanation
2  Heart versus Brain: Galen and the Squealing Pig
3  The Fire That Comes from the Eye
4  The Di scovery of Motor Cortex
II  Neuroscience and Art
5  “Psychosurgery” in Renai s sance Art
6  Left and Right in Science and Art with Marc H. Bor nstein
7  Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Les son of Dr. Joan Dei jman
III  Scienti sts Who Were “Before Their Time”
8  Claude Ber nard and the Constancy of the Internal Environment
9  Bartolomeo Panizza and the Vi sual Brain with Michael Colombo and Arnaldo Colombo
10  Joseph Altman and Adult Neurogenes i s : The Dogma of “No New Neurons ” in the Adult Mammalian Brain
11  Donald R. Griff in: Echolocation and Animal Consciousness
12  The Genealogy of the “Grandmother Cell”

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