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" Neuroscience : "
Mitchell Glickstein
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BL
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626142
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Glickstein, Mitchell
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Neuroscience : : a historical introduction /\ Mitchell Glickstein
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viii, 407 pages :: illustration ;; 24 cm
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9780262026802 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 0262026805 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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
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Neurosciences-- History
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Neurology-- History
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Brain-- Physiology
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| Dewey Classification
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612.8/233
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RC338.G55 2014
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