Category: Neuroscience

Brain Tumors TOGETHER WITH The Abnormal Pneumoencephalogram, first and second editions

By: Davidoff, Leo M. and Epstein, Bernard S.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Lea & Febiger : 1942

Seller ID: 669

COLLECTION OF 3 LANDMARK TEXTS BY LEO DAVIDOFF, DISCIPLE OF HARVEY CUSHING, AND PIONEER IN DEVELOPMENT OF THE PNEUMOENCEPHALOGRAM. Collection of 3 hardcover books: 1) L. M. Davidoff. Brain Tumors. Their Pathology, Symptomatology, Diagnosis and Prognosis. [Reprint of papers published in installments in the Psychiatric Quarterly, vols. IV and V, April 1930-April 1931], Dedicated to My Teacher Doctor Harvey Cushing, 158 pp, illustrations; 2) L. M. Davidoff & B. S. Epstein. The Abnormal Pneumoencephalogram, dedicated to the memory of Cornelius G. Dyke, M.D., neuroradiologist, 506 pp, illustration...
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Neural Darwinism

By: Edelman GM;

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Basic Books : 1987

Seller ID: 189

1984 FIRST EDITION OF NOBEL LAUREATE'S APPLICATION OF DARWININAN SELECTION TO BRAIN FUNCTION. 9 1/2 inches tall hardcover, xxii, 371 pages, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, many illustrations, folding color plate. Fine/vg (dj in protective mylar sleeve). Edelman's central idea is that the nervous system in each individual operates as a selective system resembling natural selection in evolution, but operating by different mechanisms. Memory is considered a dynamic process of recategorization rather than a replicative store of attributes. The book focuses on key problems in developmental...
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The Vagi in Medicine and Surgery

By: Holt, George W.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Springfield, Charles C. Thomas : 1968

Seller ID: 852

SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY OF THE VAGUS NERVES IN MEDICAL AND SURGICAL DISORDERS. 10 inches tall hardcover, sky blue cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, xv, 92 pp, illustrations; residue from stickers on cover, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, no other library marks, very good.
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Selective Partial Ablation of the Frontal Cortex. A Correlative Study of its Effects on Human Psychotic Subjects by the Columbia-Greystone Associates

By: Mettler, Fred A.

Price: $70.00

Publisher: New York, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. : 1949

Seller ID: 428

LANDMARK REPORT OF CONTROLLED STUDY OF FRONTAL LOBOTOMY IN PSYCHOTIC PATIENTS--ASSOCIATION COPY. 10 1/4 inches tall hardcover, original red cloth binding, gilt title to spine, handstamp of Frank K. Beach to front endpaper, 517 pages, many illustrations and photographic plates. Light fading to spine, gilt lettering bright, binding tight, pages bright and unmarked, very good. PREFACE: In this report we present a detailed account of our study of the 48 patients in our series—24 of whom were operated upon and 24 in a control group. ... While we feel that much has been accomplished by this project,...
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Sympathectomy. An Anatomical and physiological Study with Clinical Implications

By: Monro, P. A.G.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: London, Oxford University Press : 1959

Seller ID: 853

1958 MONOGRAPH ON EFFECTS OF SYMPATHECTOMY ON LONG-TERM PHYSIOLOGIC FOLLOW-UP OF OVER 50 PATIENTS, CORRELATED WITH POST-MORTEM FINDINGS. 10 inches tall hardcover, gray cloth binding, gilt title to spine, bookplate of physician owner to front paste-down, xx, 290 pp, 84 figures, folding table; near-fine in very good dust jacket. PETER ALEXANDER GEORGE MONRO (1919 - 2005) was anatomist, lecturer, and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. After the war, Monro worked at the EMS hospital at Harold Wood, Essex, before returning to the London Hospital Medical College in 1948 as Demonstrator in Anato...
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The Fine Structure of the Nervous System. The Cells and Their Processes

By: Peters, Alan, Palay, Sanford L. and Webster, Henry de F.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Hoeber, Harper & Row : 1970

Seller ID: 854

1970 FIRST PRINTING OF SEMINAL BOOK ON FINE STRUCTURE OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM WITH 61 PLATES--COPY OF EMINENT NEUROLOGIST. 10 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, printed title to cover and spine, signature and handstamp of Monroe Cole to front & back paste-down, frontis of neurons, xvi, 198 pp, 61 plates. ALAN PETERS (born 1929) received his Ph.D. in zoology from the University of Bristol and after completing his two years of required Army service, in 1957 he took up a postdoctoral position in the Department of Anatomy at the University of Edinburgh with George Romanes. There he learned ...
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Somatosensory Changes after Penetrating Brain Wounds in Man

By: Semmes, Josephine, Weinstein, Sidney, Ghent, Lila and Teuber, Hans-Lukas

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press : 1960

Seller ID: 585

1960 CLASSIC STUDY OF BRAIN INJURY IN COMBAT VETERANS AT NYU-BELLEVUE CONTRIBUTED TO UNDERSTANDING NORMAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, tan cloth binding, title to cover and spine, xiii, 91 pp, 18 tables, 9 figures. Very good in very good price-clipped dust jacket. FOREWORD: This monograph describes one of a series of studies that have been under way for more than. ten years in the Psychophysiological Laboratory (New York University-Bellevue Medical Center), a unit concerned with investigations of brain function in man. To this end, the laboratory has studied effects of penetr...
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Planches pour le Traite de l'Anatomie du Cerveau

By: Vicq-d'Azyr, Felix

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Paris, Louis Duprat-Duverger : 1813

Seller ID: 1081

1813 ATLAS OF THE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN BY FELIX VICQ-D'AZYR, THE GREATEST COMPARATIVE ANATOMIST OF THE 18TH CENTURY. 10 1/2 inches tall hardcover, brown paper covered boards, recent black cloth spine with gilt leather label, decorative bookplate to front paste-down of Charles Atwood Kofoid; title page, frontispiece allegorical engraving depicting Anatomy revealing Medicine and Art by Girodet (after Alexandre Briceau), engraved by Robert De Launay, 35 copper plate engravings of the human brain (8 folding), 4 plates of comparative anatomy each containing multiple images. Covers soiled, light bro...
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Image for A contribution to the physiology of the nervous system of the medusa Gonionemus murbachii. Part I. The sensory reactions of gonionemus. Part II. The physiology of the central nervous system, OFFPRINTS FROM The American Journal of Physiology, Vole. VI and VII

A contribution to the physiology of the nervous system of the medusa Gonionemus murbachii. Part I. The sensory reactions of gonionemus. Part II. The physiology of the central nervous system, OFFPRINTS FROM The American Journal of Physiology, Vole. VI and VII

By: Yerkes, R.M.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Mass., American Physiological Society : 1902

Seller ID: 1225

1902 TWO OFFPRINTS SUMMARIZING HARVARD PHD THESIS ON JELLYFISH NEUROSCIENCE BY COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGIST ROBERT YERKES WHO BECAME FAMOUS PRIMATOLOGIST AND EUGENECIST. Two 15.5x23.5 cm offprints from the American Journal of Physiology in stapled printed paper wraps, Part I, Vol. VI, pp 434-449, February, 1902; Part II, Vol. VII, pp 181-198, May, 1902. Age-toned, handstamp to covers of Aquatic Research Institute and Zool. Staatsinstitut und Zool. Museum Hamburg, unopened, very good in archival mylar sleeve. The author concluded from his experiments that responses of the jellyfish to stimuli are n...
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Category: Neuroscience