Four men met at Cambridge in the 1890s; their careers and lives would intertwine for decades. Beginning with the science of their day, their voyages of discovery in peace and in war would range their work across fields that we now call neurology, psychology, psychiatry, zoology …
"As the nineteenth century drew to a close and with Darwin's theory of evolution now accepted, modern neuroscience began. Four men met at Cambridge in the 1890s; their careers and lives would intertwine for decades. Beginning with the science of their day, their voyages of disco…
Four men met at Cambridge in the 1890s; their careers and lives would intertwine for decades. Beginning with the science of their day, their voyages of discovery in peace and in war would range their work across fields that we now call neurology, psychology, psychiatry, zoology …
Four men met at Cambridge in the 1890s; their careers and lives would intertwine for decades. Beginning with the science of their day, their voyages of discovery in peace and in war would range their work across fields that we now call neurology, psychology, psychiatry, zoology …
Emil du Bois-Reymond is the most important forgotten intellectual of the nineteenth century. In his own time (1818--1896) du Bois-Reymond grew famous in his native Germany and beyond for his groundbreaking research in neuroscience and his provocative addresses on politics and cu…
"What links conscious experience of pain, joy, color, and smell to bioelectrical activity in the brain? How can anything physical give rise to nonphysical, subjective, conscious states? Christof Koch has devoted much of his career to bridging the seemingly unbridgeable gap betwe…
Eighty years ago the largest genocide ever occurred in Nazi Europe. This began with the mass extermination of patients with neurologic and psychiatric disorders that Hitler's regime considered "useless eaters". The neuropsychiatric profession was systematically "cleansed" beginn…
80 years ago the greatest mass murder of human beings of all time occurred in Nazi occupied Europe. This began with the mass extermination of patients with neurological and psychiatric disorders. This book is the only comprehensive and scholarly published work regarding the ethi…
Eighty years ago the largest genocide ever occurred in Nazi Europe. This began with the mass extermination of patients with neurologic and psychiatric disorders that Hitler's regime considered "useless eaters". The neuropsychiatric profession was systematically "cleansed" beginn…
Review: "Although Hermann von Helmholtz was one of the most remarkable figures of nineteenth-century science, he is little known outside his native Germany. Helmholtz (1821-1894) made significant contributions to the study of vision and perception and was also influential in the…
"Although Hermann von Helmholtz was one of the most remarkable figures of nineteenth-century science, he is little known outside his native Germany. Helmholtz (1821-1894) made significant contributions to the study of vision and perception and was also influential in the paintin…
"Although Hermann von Helmholtz was one of the most remarkable figures of nineteenth-century science, he is little known outside his native Germany. Helmholtz (1821-1894) made significant contributions to the study of vision and perception and was also influential in the paintin…
Early studies of the human brain used a simple method: wait for misfortune to strike--strokes, seizures, infectious diseases, horrendous accidents--and see how victims coped. In many cases their survival was miraculous, if puzzling. Observers were amazed by the transformations t…