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Author Schmied, Lori A., 1958- author.

Title The advance of neuroscience : twelve topics from the Victorian era to today / Lori A. Schmied.

Publication Info. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

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Contents Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; The Brain; 1. The New Phrenology; 2. The Double Brain; 3. "To Sleep, Perchance to Dream"; 4. Bad Vibrations: Music on the Brain; Drugs and Behavior; 5. Victorian Explorations of Psychoactive Drugs; 6. LSD Redux: Hallucinogens; 7. The Poppy's Curse: Opiates; Applied Neuroscience; 8. You Are What You Eat: Gut and Brain; 9. "The Heinous Sin": Viagra; 10. What's Your Type? Typologies; 11. Detoxing the Brain; 12. The "Rest Cure" Revisited; Conclusion; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary Neuroscience, like psychology, has a short history but a long past. Although the mind-body relationship has been studied for a long time, it is only in the last fifty years that the term "neuroscience" has been applied to the academic disciplines focusing on brain and behavior. This book explores topics on the brain, psychoactive drugs, and a variety of human behaviors and experiences--such as music and sleep--taking into consideration the importance of historical roots of neuroscience, which have been largely unexamined before now. It looks particularly at the importance of the Victorian era in the development of theories of the nervous system, which are still visible in today's discourse on brain and behavior.
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Subject Neurosciences -- History.
Neurosciences.
History.
Brain.
Brain.
United States.
brains.
MEDICAL -- Physiology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Human Anatomy & Physiology.
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: 9781476665573 1476665575 (DLC) 2018049361 (OCoLC)1057367539
ISBN 9781476633978 (electronic book)
1476633975 (electronic book)
9781476665573
1476665575