Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine: 25th Anniversary Edition

by Gordon M. Shepherd

Book Overview

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 an authoritative account of how this theory was the product of an explosion of histological studies and vigorous debates near the end of the nineteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190259388
• ISBN13: 9780190259389
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"