Materia gris

Did prehistoric peoples ignore the importance of the brain and its deep relationship with human life? Why was the heart once thought to be the organ that controlled sensations and movements? When was the concept of mind associated with the ability to reason introduced and how was a more complete view of mental functions obtained? Who Tackled Neurological Diseases for the First Time? In this surprising book, Ignacio Morgado reveals to us the ideas and discoveries of philosophers and scientists that made possible the current knowledge of the human brain and mind, such as Aristotle, Galeno, Descartes, Galvani, Von Helmholtz, Ramón y Cajal, Sherrington, Pavlov or Skinner, and he also shows us the technical inventions that gave way to that knowledge, such as the compound microscope, devices for storing electricity, the electroencephalogram and modern neuroimaging. Sprinkled with abundant anecdotes and curiosities related to the protagonists and their findings, this valuable compendium reviews, from remote antiquity to the present day, the history of the brain, of mental processes (memory, learning, sleep ...) and of the main neurological disorders, an analysis that manages to give us a complete picture of what neuroscience is.