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Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.
Policy makers, mental health practitioners, neuroscience researchers, researchers from various fields of health science and the humanities, members of the public and psychonauts
Part 1. Imagining the brain between body and soul
1. Ventricular localization in late antiquity: The philosophical and theological roots of an enduring model of brain function
Jessica Wright
2. The pathological and the normal: Mapping the brain in medieval medicine
William MacLehose
3. Imagining the soul: Thomas Willis (1621–1675) on the anatomy of the brain and nerves
Alexander Wragge-Morley
4. Gaetano Zumbo’s anatomical wax model: From skull to cranium
Rose Marie San Juan
Part 2. Representing the brain and the nervous system: Styles, media, practices
5. The nervous system and the anatomy of expression: Sir Charles Bell’s anatomical watercolours
Brendan Clarke and Chiara Ambrosio
6. Gertrude Stein’s modernist brain
Chiara Ambrosio
7. Imagining the brain as a book. Oskar and Cécile Vogt’s "library of brains"
Chantal Marazia and Heiner Fangerau
8. Pinpricks: Needling, numbness, and temporalities of pain
Lan A. Li
Part 3. Inside the brain: Arguments and evidence in the making of the modern neurosciences
9. From images to physiology: A strange paradox at the origin of modern neuroscience
Paolo Mazzarello
10. One, no-one and a hundred thousand brains: J.C. Eccles, J.Z. Young and the establishment of the neurosciences (1930s–1960s)
Fabio De Sio
11. Seeing patterns in neuroimaging data
Jessey Andrew Kenneth Wright
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