Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin

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<br>international community are critically explored. <p/>A brief selection of topics covered by <em>The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin</em>: <br>- Luigi Rolando's neuroanatomical drawings<br>- Cesare Lombroso's controversial stances on criminal anthropology<br>- Angelo Mosso's pioneering 'neuroimaging' experiments<br>- Ernesto Lugaro's contributions to neuroplasticity and psychiatry<br>- Federico Kiesow and the development of experimental psychology in Europe<br>- Camillo Negro's first clinical neurological movies<br>- Giuseppe Levi's histological works and his mentorship<br>- Rita Levi Montalcini and her Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the Nerve Growth Factor<br>