The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin by Stefano Sandrone
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The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin

The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin


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This book is a journey to discover and rediscover famous and lesser known aspects of the birth of modern neuroscience in Turin, from pre-Enlightenment to the 1980s. The pioneering contributions of neuroscientists from Turin and working in Turin and how they shaped the national and international community are critically explored.

A brief selection of topics covered by The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin:
- Luigi Rolando's neuroanatomical drawings
- Cesare Lombroso's controversial stances on criminal anthropology
- Angelo Mosso's pioneering 'neuroimaging' experiments
- Ernesto Lugaro's contributions to neuroplasticity and psychiatry
- Federico Kiesow and the development of experimental psychology in Europe
- Camillo Negro's first clinical neurological movies
- Giuseppe Levi's histological works and his mentorship
- Rita Levi Montalcini and her Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Nerve Growth Factor

About the Author:
Dr. Stefano Sandrone is a neuroscientist working at Imperial College London. He is the past Chair of the History of Neurology Section at the American Academy of Neurology. He was awarded the Julia Higgins Award and the President's Award from Imperial College London, the Science Educator Award presented by the Society for Neuroscience, and the H. Richard Tyler Award, the Lawrence C. McHenry Award and the A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American Academy of Neurology.

Dr. Lorenzo Lorusso is a neurologist and the director of the neurology unit at the neuroscience department of the Azienda Socio-Sanitario Territoriale Lecco in Merate, Italy. He is the past Chair of the History Committee at the Federation of the European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and the past President of the International Society for the History of the Neuroscience. He has organised several meetings in the history of medicine and neuroscience for national and international societies.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780190907587
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Height: 249 mm
  • No of Pages: 310
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 163 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0190907584
  • Publisher Date: 16 Nov 2021
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 616 gr


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