The Idea Of The Brain by Professor Matthew Cobb
The Past and Future of Neuroscience
A readable, panoramic history of how cultures and scientists have understood the brain from antiquity to modern neuroscience, showing how shifting technologies and metaphors—from hydraulic pipes and machines to electricity and computers—shaped experiments, theories and controversies; it profiles key figures and discoveries, explains methods (microscopy, lesion studies, electrophysiology and imaging), and emphasizes contingency, false starts and the social contexts that guided research while arguing that our current picture of neurons and networks emerged gradually rather than from a single Eureka moment.
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