The Advance of Neuroscience

Twelve Topics from the Victorian Era to Today

Lori A. Schmied (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-6557-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Lori A. Schmied is a professor of psychology and coordinator of the neuroscience program at Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	27.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	322 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	1-4766-6557-5 / 1476665575
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-6557-3 / 9781476665573
Zustand	Neuware