Description
This book is a journey to discover and rediscover famous and lesser known aspects of the birth of modern neuroscience in Turin, from pre-Enlightenment to the 1980s. The pioneering contributions of neuroscientists from Turin and working in Turin and how they shaped the national and international community are critically explored. A brief selection of topics covered by The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin: * Luigi Rolando's neuroanatomical drawings * Cesare Lombroso's controversial stances on criminal anthropology * Angelo Mosso's pioneering 'neuroimaging' experiments * Ernesto Lugaro's contributions to neuroplasticity and psychiatry * Federico Kiesow and the development of experimental psychology in Europe * Camillo Negro's first clinical neurological movies * Giuseppe Levi's histological works and his mentorship * Rita Levi Montalcini and her Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Nerve Growth Factor
About the Author
Dr. Stefano Sandrone is a neuroscientist working at Imperial College London. He is the past Chair of the History of Neurology Section at the American Academy of Neurology. He was awarded the Julia Higgins Award and the President's Award from Imperial College London, the Science Educator Award presented by the Society for Neuroscience, and the H. Richard Tyler Award, the Lawrence C. McHenry Award and the A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American Academy of Neurology. Dr. Lorenzo Lorusso is a neurologist and the director of the neurology unit at the neuroscience department of the Azienda Socio-Sanitario Territoriale Lecco in Merate, Italy. He is the past Chair of the History Committee at the Federation of the European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and the past President of the International Society for the History of the Neuroscience. He has organised several meetings in the history of medicine and neuroscience for national and international societies.
Reviews
Even though the text is rich of specific historical data, it never exceeds into bore and the reader is fascinated by the flow of scientific thoughts through the decades, and as a neuroscientist and a member of the scientific community is often struck by aha moments which explain from where his knowledge and way of thinking originated. * Professor Alessandro Vercelli *
This is a beautifully written book, presenting the key figures of modern neuroscience from Turin. The author, being a scientist and an educator himself, sheds a unique light when discussing these historical giants - providing description of the people and their works that makes the book equally exciting to scientists and to lay readers. As a professor of Washington University in St. Louis, I cannot not emphasize the chapter on Rita Levy-Motalcini - one would argue that nothing new could be said about Rita after dozens of books have been written about her, yet Stefano Sandrone finds yet another angle to discuss this exceptional character. Overall, a delightful book! * Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, BJC Investigator; Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology; Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Neurosurgery, Washington University, St. Louis; Director, Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG) *
This fascinating collection of essays shows how for a long time Turin was the hub of European neuroscience, from anatomy to physiology and anthropology, from brain preservation to plasticity, neural growth and regeneration, and from neurology to neuropsychology and psychiatry. * Emeritus Professor Jan van Gijn, FRCP, University of Utrecht *
This is a long overdue, erudite presentation of the major role of Turin in shaping modern neurosciences, from Rolando to Rita Levi Montalcini. It contributes to a growing critical interest in the interactions between European research centres, while giving original insights into the relationship between scientific institutions and the economical and socio-cultural environment. * Laura Bossi, Neurologist and Science Historian, Paris *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190907587
Author Stefano Sandrone
Format Hardback
Page Count 310
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 567g
Dimensions(mm) 163mm * 249mm * 23mm
About the Author
Dr. Stefano Sandrone is a neuroscientist working at Imperial College London. He is the past Chair of the History of Neurology Section at the American Academy of Neurology. He was awarded the Julia Higgins Award and the President's Award from Imperial College London, the Science Educator Award presented by the Society for Neuroscience, and the H. Richard Tyler Award, the Lawrence C. McHenry Award and the A.B. Baker Teacher Recognition Award from the American Academy of Neurology. Dr. Lorenzo Lorusso is a neurologist and the director of the neurology unit at the neuroscience department of the Azienda Socio-Sanitario Territoriale Lecco in Merate, Italy. He is the past Chair of the History Committee at the Federation of the European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) and the past President of the International Society for the History of the Neuroscience. He has organised several meetings in the history of medicine and neuroscience for national and international societies.
Reviews
Even though the text is rich of specific historical data, it never exceeds into bore and the reader is fascinated by the flow of scientific thoughts through the decades, and as a neuroscientist and a member of the scientific community is often struck by aha moments which explain from where his knowledge and way of thinking originated. * Professor Alessandro Vercelli *
This is a beautifully written book, presenting the key figures of modern neuroscience from Turin. The author, being a scientist and an educator himself, sheds a unique light when discussing these historical giants - providing description of the people and their works that makes the book equally exciting to scientists and to lay readers. As a professor of Washington University in St. Louis, I cannot not emphasize the chapter on Rita Levy-Motalcini - one would argue that nothing new could be said about Rita after dozens of books have been written about her, yet Stefano Sandrone finds yet another angle to discuss this exceptional character. Overall, a delightful book! * Jonathan Kipnis, PhD, BJC Investigator; Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Distinguished Professor of Pathology and Immunology; Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Neurosurgery, Washington University, St. Louis; Director, Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG) *
This fascinating collection of essays shows how for a long time Turin was the hub of European neuroscience, from anatomy to physiology and anthropology, from brain preservation to plasticity, neural growth and regeneration, and from neurology to neuropsychology and psychiatry. * Emeritus Professor Jan van Gijn, FRCP, University of Utrecht *
This is a long overdue, erudite presentation of the major role of Turin in shaping modern neurosciences, from Rolando to Rita Levi Montalcini. It contributes to a growing critical interest in the interactions between European research centres, while giving original insights into the relationship between scientific institutions and the economical and socio-cultural environment. * Laura Bossi, Neurologist and Science Historian, Paris *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190907587
Author Stefano Sandrone
Format Hardback
Page Count 310
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 567g
Dimensions(mm) 163mm * 249mm * 23mm
