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