The War of the Soups and the Sparks : : The Discovery of Neurotransmitters and the Dispute Over How Nerves Communicate / / Elliot Valenstein.
Like the cracking of the genetic code and the creation of the atomic bomb, the discovery of how the brain's neurons work is one of the fundamental scientific developments of the twentieth century. The discovery of neurotransmitters revolutionized the way we think about the brain and what it mea...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2005] ©2005 |
Year of Publication: | 2005 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Setting the Stage
- 2. The Autonomic Nervous System
- 3. An Idea Ahead of Its Time
- 4. Henry Dale
- 5. Otto Loewi
- 6. The Road to the Nobel Prize
- 7. Walter Cannon
- 8. The War of the Soups and the Sparks
- 9. Loewi, Dale, and Cannon
- 10. Brain Neurotransmitters
- 11. Epilogue
- Notes
- Index