CREATING MODERN NEUROSCIENCE: THE REVOLUTIONARY
CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION: WHY STUDY HISTORY? WHY THE 1940S AND 1950S? 2 GENES: STARTING WITH DNA 3 SIGNALING MOLECULES: THE FIRST GROWTH FACTOR 4 SIGNALING MOLECULES: THE FIRST NEUROTRANSMITTERS IN THE BRAIN 5 CELL BIOLOGY AND THE SYNAPSE 6 PHYSIOLOGY: THE ACTION POTENTIAL 7 PHYSIOLOGY: SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS AND RECEPTOR POTENTIALS 8 FUNCTIONAL ORGANIZATION OF NEURONS AND DENDRITES 9 NEURAL CIRCUITS: SPINAL CORD, RETINA, INVERTEBRATE SYSTEMS 10 NEURAL CIRCUITS: CORTICAL COLUMNS AND CORTICAL PROCESSING 11 NEURAL SYSTEMS: THE NEURAL BASIS OF BEHAVIOR 12 LEARNING AND MEMORY: DONALD HEBB, BRENDA MILNER, AND H M 13 NEUROLOGY: FOUNDATIONS OF BRAIN IMAGING 14 NEUROSURGERY: FROM CUSHING TO PENFIELD 15 NEUROPSYCHIATRY: THE BREAKTHROUGH IN PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 16 THEORETICAL NEUROSCIENCE: THE BRAIN AS A COMPUTER AND THE COMPUTER AS A BRAIN 17 SUMMING UP CREATING MODERN NEUROSCIENCE