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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 95. Chapters: Rene Descartes, Ivan Pavlov, Alessandro Volta, Galen, Camillo Golgi, Hermann von Helmholtz, Andreas Vesalius, Luigi Galvani, Phrenology, Roger Wolcott Sperry, Trepanning, Paul Broca, Herophilos, Phineas Gage, History of neuroimaging, Donald O. Hebb, Craniometry, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Hans Berger, Physiognomy, William Benjamin Carpenter, Bereitschaftspotential, Erasistratus, Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Torsten Wiesel, Georg von Bekesy, Edward Flatau, Albert Einstein's brain, Charles-Edouard Brown-Sequard, Boleslav Vladimirovich Likhterman, Limbic system, Ralph W. Gerard, Cesare Lombroso, Jean Pierre Flourens, George Combe, Karl H. Pribram, Otfrid Foerster, Albert von Kolliker, David H. Hubel, Ugo Cerletti, Jan Evangelista Purkyn, Rodolfo Llinas, Howard Dully, Joseph Babinski, Heinrich Wilhelm Gottfried von Waldeyer-Hartz, Franz Nissl, Neuron doctrine, Jakob Klaesi, Johannes Peter Muller, Korbinian Brodmann, Marshall Hall, James Olds, Vagusstoff, Robert Barany, Franz Joseph Gall, Nikolay Burdenko, Golgi's method, Pasko Rakic, Balloonist theory, Johann Spurzheim, Samuel Goldflam, Carl Wernicke, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Julius Caesar Aranzi, Jean Lhermitte, Horsley-Clarke apparatus, Stone of madness, Leucotome, James Papez, Decade of the Brain, Hystero-epilepsy, Approbativeness, Cranioscopy. Excerpt: Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (September AD 129 - 199/217; Greek: , Gal nos, from adjective "," "calm"), better known as Galen of Pergamon (modern-day Bergama, Turkey), was a prominent Roman (of Greek ethnicity) physician, surgeon and philosopher. Arguably the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen contributed greatly to the understanding of numerous scientific disciplines including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy, ...
