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The mechanism of nervous action : electrical studies of the neurone / by E.D. Adrian.

Human skull: frontal view. Lithograph, c. 1835.

Anatomie et physiologie du système nerveux en général, et du cerveau en particulier, avec des observations sur la possibilité de reconnoître plusieurs dispositions intellectuelles et morales de l'homme et des animaux par la configuration de leurs têtes / Par F. J. Gall et G. Spurzheim.

Child's head with large temporal lobes and depressed frontal lobe. Drawing, c. 1900.

Head of "a backward boy" divided into four cerebral lobes: profile. Ink drawing with watercolour, c. 1900.

Three perspectives of a skull sectioned and numbered according to Gall's system of phrenology. Engraving, 1806.

A head divided in two, the left half describing activities numbered 1 to 42. Lithograph by Frank Ellis, 1901.

Two sections of the brain, divided into different lobes and faculties, according to Hollander's system of phrenology. Pen drawing, c. 1902.

Left profile of a head showing depressed frontal lobes. Drawing, c. 1900.

Gehirn, Nerven, Seele : Anatomie und Physiologie im Unfeld S. Th. Soemmerrings / herausgegeben von Gunter Mann, Franz Dumont.

The science of mind / [edited by] Kenneth A. Klivington ; scientific advisors, Floyd Bloom [and others].

Nervous and hormonal mechanisms of integration.

Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

Contributo alla conoscenza delle terminazioni nervose negli organi genitali esterni e nel capezzolo della femmina / [Pasquale Sfameni].

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Neurophysiology

Images from the collections

Images referencing Neurophysiology

Works from the collections

Gehirn, Nerven, Seele : Anatomie und Physiologie im Unfeld S. Th. Soemmerrings / herausgegeben von Gunter Mann, Franz Dumont.

The science of mind / [edited by] Kenneth A. Klivington ; scientific advisors, Floyd Bloom [and others].

Nervous and hormonal mechanisms of integration.

Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

Contributo alla conoscenza delle terminazioni nervose negli organi genitali esterni e nel capezzolo della femmina / [Pasquale Sfameni].

Neurophysiology

Images from the collections

Images referencing Neurophysiology

Works from the collections

Gehirn, Nerven, Seele : Anatomie und Physiologie im Unfeld S. Th. Soemmerrings / herausgegeben von Gunter Mann, Franz Dumont.

The science of mind / [edited by] Kenneth A. Klivington ; scientific advisors, Floyd Bloom [and others].

Nervous and hormonal mechanisms of integration.

Galen on the brain : anatomical knowledge and physiological speculation in the second century AD / by Julius Rocca.

Contributo alla conoscenza delle terminazioni nervose negli organi genitali esterni e nel capezzolo della femmina / [Pasquale Sfameni].

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