Exploring the Nervous System: With Electronic Tools, an Institutional Base, a Network of ScientistsUniversal-Publishers, 2006 - 516 pages A study of outstanding research in neuroscience and of the researchers during the 20th century with emphasis on the English, Americans, particularly the Rockefeller University students and professors. |
Contents
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4 | 81 |
The Role of the Membrane HodgkinHuxley Eccles Katz | 153 |
Rockefeller Institute Becomes A University | 171 |
Chapter | 191 |
9 | 215 |
10 | 253 |
11 | 295 |
12 | 347 |
Chapter Barlow Shapley and Snodderly | 391 |
Gadsby Greengard Kandel | 444 |
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Page 32 - The nervous system is built up of specialized cells whose reactions do not differ fundamentally from one another or from the reactions of the other kinds of excitable cell. They have a fairly simple mechanism when we treat them as individuals. Their behavior in the mass1 may be quite another story, but this is for future work to decide.
Page 27 - The advent of the vacuum tube amplifier has so altered the whole position that we can compare ourselves to a microscope worker who has been given a new objective with a resolving power a thousand times greater than anything he has had before. We have, only to focus our instrument on the field to find something new and interesting.