Manzoni, Tullio (Author)
Our cerebral cortex is a lamina of gray matter consists predominantly of cells that covers the external surface of the brain. It is characterized by numerous folds, convolutions, which form a veritable maze of ruts and bumps that give this aspect bowels singular that the ancient anatomists likened to a pack of intestines or a dish of macaroni. The cerebral cortex is the most "noble" of our brain is the seat where you play those mental processes that modern physiologists call "integrative functions superiors." The actual functions, however, were not understood by the ancient scientists until the beginning of the modern era. The book tells the story of their ideas, a story that covers a period of about twenty-three centuries. The beginning dates back to Erasistratus of Ceos, a physician and anatomist active at the beginning of the Hellenistic period, the end is marked by two fundamental discoveries made in the second half of the nineteenth century, that of Paul Braca, eclectic French physician, surgeon, neurologist and anthropologist, and that of two young German physiologists, Gustav Theodor Fritsch and Eduard Hitzig. These scientists demonstrated for the first time that the cerebral cortex governs higher order functions as articulated language and the voluntary movement. It was the beginning of the modern history of this important brain structure.
...MoreDescription A long history of brain science.
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