Gordon M Shepherd: 4 books

Il cibo è oggi uno dei temi più attuali del dibattito pubblico; il libro di Gordon Shepherd getta le basi di una nuova disciplina, la neurogastronomia, e allo stesso tempo rappresenta uno sguardo inedito su uno dei gesti più comuni eppure più densi di signicato per l’uomo: mangiare. Ed è proprio...

Modern brain imaging is revolutionizing the study of brain function in health and disease. However, few realize that its origins began in the nineteenth century with Dr. Angelo Mosso's pioneering experiments. A foremost Italian physiologist and scientist, Angelo Mosso studied several patients brought...

The neuron doctrine, first formulated in 1891, states that the brain is constructed of individual neurons, organized into functioning circuits that mediate behavior. It is the fundamental principal that underlies all of neuroscience and clinical neurology. Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine gives...

For modern scientists, history often starts with last week's journals and is regarded as largely a quaint interest compared with the advances of today. However, this book makes the case that, measured by major advances, the greatest decade in the history of brain studies was mid-twentieth century,...