(Paperback)

Essays on great figures and important issues, advances and blind alleysfrom trepanation to the discovery of grandmother cellsin the history of brain sciences.

(Paperback)

In these engaging tales describing the growth of knowledge about the brainfrom the early Egyptians and Greeks to the Dark Ages and the Renaissance to the present timeGross attempts to answer the question of how the discipline of neuroscience evolved into its modern incarnation through the twists and turns of history.