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Perspectives on Neuroscience
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Perspectives on Neuroscience

Published on: July 31, 2007

Some revolutions in neuroscience.

Charles Gross1

  • 1Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, 18 East Shore Dr., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA. cggross@princeton.edu

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
|December 4, 2012
PubMed
Summary

This essay explores eight major "Revolutions in Neuroscience," detailing paradigm shifts in understanding the nervous system from ancient Greece to the late 20th century.

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