Minds behind the brain: a history of the pioneers and their discoveries

Abstract

1. Introduction: a voyage across time 2. An ancient Egyptian physician: the dawn of neurology 3. Hippocrates: the brain as the organ of mind 4. Galen: The birth of experimentation 5. Andreas Vesalius: the new 'human' neuroanatomy 6. Rene Descartes: the mind-body problem 7. Thomas Willis: the functional organization of the brain 8. Luigi Galvani: electricity and the nerves 9. Franz Joseph Gall: the cerebral organs of the mind 10. Paul Broca: Cortical localization and cerebral dominance 11. David Ferrier and Eduard Hitzig: the experimentalists map the cerebral cortex 12. Jean-Martin Charcot: clinical neurology comes of age 13. Santiago Ramon y Cajal: from nerve nets to neuron doctrine 14. Charles Scott Sherrington: the integrated nervous system 15. Edgar D. Adrian: coding in the nervous s#stem 16. Otto Loewi and Henry Dale: the discovery of neurotransmitters 17. Roger W. Sperry and Rita Levi-Montalcini: from neural growth to 'Split Brains' 18. Pioneers and discoveries in the brain sciences