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The Cerebral Cortex and the Internal Organs

By: Bykov, K. M.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Moscow, Foreign Languages Publishing House: 1959

Seller ID: 971

1959 ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE LIFE'S WORK OF K. M. BYKOV, IVAN PAVLOV'S CLOSEST PUPIL: INVESTIGATION OF CONDITIONED REFLEXES BETWEEN CEREBRAL CORTEX AND GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY. 8 inches tall hardcover, blue cloth binding, title to cover and spine, bookplate to front paste-down, 459 pp, illustrations. KONSTANTIN MIKHAILOVICH BYKOV (1886-1959) was Pavlov's closest pupil. On the basis of numerous experiments Bykov and his collaborators established bilateral connections between the cortex and the internal organs; on the one hand, it is a regulating influence of the cortex on the activity of the inte...
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Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage. An Account of Recent Researches into the Function of Emotional Excitement

By: Cannon, Walter B.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York and London, D. Appleton and Co.: 1925

Seller ID: 849

CLASSIC STUDY OF THE FIGHT OR FLIGHT RESPONSE. 8 inches tall hardcover, red cloth boards, institutional library bookplate to front paste-down, previous owner bookplate to front flyleaf, xiii, 311 pp, 39 text figures, list at back of original research publications from the physiological laboratory of Harvard University on which the present account is based. Spine faded, binding tight, text unmarked, pages crisp, very good in custom archival mylar cover. PREFACE: Fear, rage, and pain, and the pangs of hunger are all primitive experiences which human beings share with the lower animals. These exp...
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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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Image for An Inquiry regarding the parts of the nervous system which regulate the contractions of the arteries; together with On the cutaneous pigmentary system of the frog; together with On the early stages of inflammation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

An Inquiry regarding the parts of the nervous system which regulate the contractions of the arteries; together with On the cutaneous pigmentary system of the frog; together with On the early stages of inflammation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society

By: Lister, Joseph

Price: $400.00

Publisher: London, Royal Society of London: 1859

Seller ID: 306

1859 FIRST EDITION OF LANDMARK RESEARCH PAPERS ON INFLAMMATION BY SIR GEORGE LISTER, FATHER OF ANTISEPSIS AND MODERN SURGERY. 11 1/4 inches tall hardcover, recent red cloth binding, spine gilt, pp 607-702 and two lithographed plates (one colored) extracted rom Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, vol. 148, Part II, for the year 1858. Clean and unmarked, fine. JOSEPH LISTER, 1st Baron Lister, OM PC PRS (1827 – 1912), known between 1883 and 1897 as Sir Joseph Lister, Bt., was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. He promoted the idea of sterile surgery while workin...
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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 projec...
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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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Shell-Shock and After - The Shattuck Lecture

By: Southard, E.E.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts Medical Society: 1918

Seller ID: 358

1918 LANDMARK LECTURE BY PIONEER INVESTIGATOR OF SHELL-SHOCK IN WORLD WAR I. 9 inches tall offprint from The Boston Medical And Surgical Journal, July 18, 1918; brown printed paper covers, lightly browned pages, 68 pages, unmarked and very good. ELMER ERNEST SOUTHARD (1876 - 1920) was an American neuropsychiatrist, neuropathologist, professor and author. Born in Boston, Southard lived there for almost his entire life. He attended Boston Latin School, then completed college and medical school at Harvard University. While studying at Harvard, he distinguished himself as a chess player. Southard...
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Category: Neuroscience