Major Figures in the History of Neuroscience

Why does contracting one muscle interfere with contracting a different one? How did a scientist uncover the chemical basis of memory using a sea slug? And why did a Nobel Prize once go to the inventor of the lobotomy?

In Major Figures in the History of Neuroscience, veteran psychology professor James W. Kalat tells the surprising, often funny, sometimes tragic human stories behind the discoveries that built modern brain science. From Santiago Ramon y Cajal sketching neurons b…