Creating modern neuroscience the revolutionary 1950s

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 centu...

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Main Author: Shepherd, Gordon M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press 2010, c2010
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary: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
Physical Description:ix, 291 p., [32] p. of plates ill
ISBN:9780199863464
0199863466