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Mark Twain, Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the Head Readers

Stanley Finger

Having a phrenological 'head reading' was one of the most significant fads of the nineteenth century – a means for better knowing oneself and a guide for self-improvement. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) had a lifelong yet long overlooked interest in phrenology, the...

Franz Joseph Gall

Paul Eling , Stanley Finger

Franz Joseph Gall (1758-1828) was always a controversial figure, as was his doctrine, later called phrenology. Although often portrayed as a discredited buffoon, who believed he could assess a person's strengths and weaknesses by measuring cranial bumps, he was, in...

Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Evolution, the Musical Brain, Medical Conditions, and Therapies

Eckart Altenmüller , Francois Boller , Stanley Finger

Did you ever ask whether music makes people smart, why a Parkinson patient's gait is improved with marching tunes, and whether Robert Schumann was suffering from schizophrenia or Alzheimer's disease? This broad but comprehensive book deals with history and new...

Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives

Eckart Altenmüller , Francois Boller , Stanley Finger

Music, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical Connections and Perspectives provides a broad and comprehensive discussion of history and new discoveries regarding music and the brain, presenting a multidisciplinary overview on music processing, its effects on brain...

Literature, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders

Anne Stiles , Francois Boller , Stanley Finger

This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields.This volume on the neurosciences, neurology, and literature vividly shows how science and the humanities can...

Literature, Neurology, and Neuroscience: Historical and Literary Connections

Anne Stiles , Francois Boller , Stanley Finger

This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields.This volume on the neurosciences, neurology, and literature vividly shows how science and the humanities can...

The Fine Arts, Neurology, and Neuroscience

Julien Bogousslavsky , Francois Boller , Stanley Finger , Dahlia W. Zaidel

This well-established international series examines major areas of basic and clinical research within neuroscience, as well as emerging and promising subfields.This volume explores the history and modern perspective on neurology and neuroscience. -This well-established...

The Fine Arts, Neurology, and Neuroscience

Julien Bogousslavsky , Francois Boller , Stanley Finger , Dahlia W. Zaidel

This volume on neuroscience, neurology, and the fine arts brings several disciplines together. It presents current thoughts and modern examples about how science, medicine and the arts have interacted in the past and are still converging.This volume specifically...

Early Brain Damage V2

Stanley Finger

Early Brain Damage, Volume 2: Neurobiology and Behavior, is the second of two volumes that provide a comprehensive overview of the many facets of research on the topic of brain damage sustained early in life. The present volume focuses on controlled experimentation on...

The Shocking History of Electric Fishes

Stanley Finger , Marco Piccolino

History of Neurology

Francois Boller , Stanley Finger , Kenneth L. Tyler

Handbook of Clinical Neurology: Volume 95 is the first of over 90 volumes of the handbook to be entirely devoted to the history of neurology. The book is a collection of historical materials from different neurology professionals. The book is divided into 6...

Minds behind the Brain

Stanley Finger