TY - GEN AU - Glickstein,Mitchell TI - Neuroscience: a historical introduction SN - 9780262026802 (hardcover : alk. paper) U1 - 612.8233 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Cambridge, Massachusetts PB - The MIT Press KW - Neurosciences KW - History KW - Neurology KW - Brain KW - Physiology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Overview of the nervous system: structures and functions -- The structure of nerve cells and their supporting tissues -- Electrical transmission in the nervous system -- Chemical transmission and the mechanism of drug action -- Sensation -- Vision and the eye -- Vision: central mechanisms -- Audition -- Somesthesis and vestibular sense -- Chemical, heat, and electrical senses -- Reflexes -- Brain control of movement -- Learning and memory -- Motivation -- Language and the brain -- Neurological disease -- Personality and emotion -- Mental illness and the history of surgical and drug treatment -- Consciousness and the techniques for study of the human brain -- Conclusion ER -