Lorenzo Lorusso / Stefano Sandrone
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
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 andinternational 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
