The Neurophysiological Basis of Mind: the Principles of Neurophysiology

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. Later printing of first ed. Hardcover. Exterior worn; ownership signature of Professor Richard Steinhardt (UC Berkeley Biology) to front paste-down. Overall about very good(-) to good(+) thus. Binding is tight and pages clean.. Royal octavo in dark blue cloth; viii, 314 pages: illustrations; bibliographical references. The Waynflete Lectures, 1952, Magdalen College (University of Oxford).[series]

Contents: The Ionic Hypothesis and the Resting Membrane -- the Ionic Hypothesis and the Active Membrane -- Transmission Across Peripheral Junctional Regions -- the Electrophysiology of the Neurone and Synaptic Transmission in the Central Nervous System -- Central Inhibition, Co-Ordination of Reflexes, and Transmission of Information -- Prolonged Functional Changes (Plasticity) in the Nervous System -- the Cerebral Cortex -- the Mind-Brain Problem -- References and Author Index -- Index.

"Sir John Carew Eccles (27 January 1903 - 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin."-Wikipedia

Neurophysiology. Thought and thinking. Neurophysiology Thinking Nervous System Système nerveux. Neurophysiologie. Pensée. thinking. Thought and thinking. Neurophysiology. Nervous system.