Recursos na Internet

Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD

Biografias

Camilo Golgi: Biography. Nobel Foundation.
Santiago Ramon y Cajal: Biography. Nobel Foundation.
Edgar Douglas Adrian: Biography. Nobel Foundation.
Herbert Spencer Gasser: Biography. Nobel Foundation.
Joseph Erlanger: Biography. Nobel Foundation.
Hermann von Helmholz: Biography.
Johannes Müller: Biography.
Luigi Galvani: Biography.
Alessandro Volta: Biography.
René Descartes: Biography.
Julius Bernstein, Biography. [In Spanish]
Jan Purkyne: Biography. NASA Neurolab.
Robert Remak. Biography. NASA NeuroLab.
Theodor Schwann: Biography. NASA NeuroLab.
Emile Du Bois-Reymond: Biography. Founders of Neurology (Louis D. Boshes, M.D. Archives at the University of Illinois at Chicago).
Claude Bernard: Biography. Founders of Neurology.

The Electrical Activity of the Nervous System (from Galvani to Chaos). Marc S. Weiss.
NASA NeuroLab Spotlight On Neuroscience: A historical timeline of neuroscience, including short biographies on Descartes, Galvani, Golgi, His, von Kolliker, Ramon y Cajal, Adrian, Erlanger and Gasser.
Mind and Body: René Descartes to William James. By Robert H., Bryn Mawr College, USA
Excellent historical and philosophical outline, with a chapter on René Descartes.
The Brain Project, by Stephen Jones has a site on the history of neurophysiology, with:
- The Classical view of the Mind, with notes on Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and Galen
- Extracts from Rene Descartes' philosophical analysis of the Mind and the Brain. .
- Early Neurophysiology: Some notes on the development of early Neuro-anatomy and Neuro-physiology with special reference to the localisation of function.

Brazier, M.A.B.: The historical development of neurophysiology. Chapter I. The Handbook of Neurophysiology, American Physiological Society, Washington, DC, 1959, p. 1-58.
Brazier, M.A.B: A History of Neurophysiology in the 17th and 18th Centuries: From Concept to Experiment. Lippincot-Raven Publ., 1984
Brazier, M.A.B. A History of Neurophysiology in the 19th Century. Raven Press, New York, 1984.
Changeux, J-P. Neuronal Man, 1985
Physiologists of Minds: Brain Scientists from Gall to Penfield. In: Pioneers of Psychology. Raymond E. Fancher, York University, Third Edition, WW Norton & Co, 1995.

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