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    • The Limiting Factor For Brain Growth In Evolution (Ch.1)
    • Plants, Insects, and the Human Brain (Ch. 2)
    • Coffee and the Enlightenment (Ch. 3)
    • Making Chemistry Fashionable (Ch. 4)
    • Neuroscience of the 20th Century (Ch. 5)
    • Coffee, Stimulants and War – Drugs For Good and Evil (Ch. 6)
    • An Accidental Discovery With Unusual Properties (Ch. 7)
    • Nootropics: Towards the Mind (Ch. 8)
    • Premature Babies To Aging Populations (Ch. 9)
    • From the Lab to the Web, Increasing the Speed of Science (Ch. 10)
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Chapter 5: Neuroscience of the 20th Century

While the brain has been studied for thousands of years, the term neuroscience wasn’t actually coined until relatively recently, 1963, by Francis O. Schmitt to describe the neuroscience.

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    • The Limiting Factor For Brain Growth In Evolution (Ch.1)
    • Plants, Insects, and the Human Brain (Ch. 2)
    • Coffee and the Enlightenment (Ch. 3)
    • Making Chemistry Fashionable (Ch. 4)
    • Neuroscience of the 20th Century (Ch. 5)
    • Coffee, Stimulants and War – Drugs For Good and Evil (Ch. 6)
    • An Accidental Discovery With Unusual Properties (Ch. 7)
    • Nootropics: Towards the Mind (Ch. 8)
    • Premature Babies To Aging Populations (Ch. 9)
    • From the Lab to the Web, Increasing the Speed of Science (Ch. 10)
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  • Chapter Summaries and Slides
    • Back
    • The Limiting Factor For Brain Growth In Evolution (Ch.1)
    • Plants, Insects, and the Human Brain (Ch. 2)
    • Coffee and the Enlightenment (Ch. 3)
    • Making Chemistry Fashionable (Ch. 4)
    • Neuroscience of the 20th Century (Ch. 5)
    • Coffee, Stimulants and War – Drugs For Good and Evil (Ch. 6)
    • An Accidental Discovery With Unusual Properties (Ch. 7)
    • Nootropics: Towards the Mind (Ch. 8)
    • Premature Babies To Aging Populations (Ch. 9)
    • From the Lab to the Web, Increasing the Speed of Science (Ch. 10)