Nerve Endings: The Discovery of the Synapse
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2005
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-06019-5 (ISBN)
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-06019-5 (ISBN)
A remarkable tale of how a lone researcher in the Spanish countryside discovered how brain cells communicate.
Two doctors, the Spaniard Cajal and the Italian Golgi, were racing against each other to find out what brain cells looked like and how they managed to communicate with one another. Both did their most important research in labs set up on their kitchen tables, for lack of better facilities; and both made landmark findings that led to their jointly receiving the 1906 Nobel Prize. Yet one man would find that neurons communicated over a gap, later named the 'synapse', while the other would die convinced that ever brain cell connected to the next. From Parkinson's to neurosurgery, from the mechanics of memory to clinical depression, modern medicine is ever indebted to the one who interpreted the elusive - and rather extraordinary - anatomy of the nerve cell. This is the story not only of one of the nineteenth-century's greatest discoveries but also of the frailty, perseverance, and creativity of human beings.
Two doctors, the Spaniard Cajal and the Italian Golgi, were racing against each other to find out what brain cells looked like and how they managed to communicate with one another. Both did their most important research in labs set up on their kitchen tables, for lack of better facilities; and both made landmark findings that led to their jointly receiving the 1906 Nobel Prize. Yet one man would find that neurons communicated over a gap, later named the 'synapse', while the other would die convinced that ever brain cell connected to the next. From Parkinson's to neurosurgery, from the mechanics of memory to clinical depression, modern medicine is ever indebted to the one who interpreted the elusive - and rather extraordinary - anatomy of the nerve cell. This is the story not only of one of the nineteenth-century's greatest discoveries but also of the frailty, perseverance, and creativity of human beings.
RICHARD RAPPORT, M. D., is a neurosurgeon and author of Physician: The Life of Paul Beeson.
| Verlagsort | New York |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 389 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-393-06019-5 / 0393060195 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-393-06019-5 / 9780393060195 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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