The brain in antiquity
Changing concepts of brain function
The era of cortical localization
Holism and the critics of cortical localization
Vision : from antiquity through the Renaissance
Post-Renaissance visual anatomy and physiology
Color vision
The ear and theories of hearing
Audition and the central nervous system
The cutaneous senses
Pain
Gustation
Olfaction
The pyramidal system and the motor cortex
The cerebellum and the corpus striatum
Some movement disorders
The process of sleep
The nature of dreaming
Theories of emotion from Democritus to William James
Defining and controlling the circuits of emotion
Intellect and the brain
The frontal lobes and intellect
The nature of the memory trace
The neuropathology of memory
Speech and language
The emergence of the concept of cerebral dominance
Expansion of the concept of cerebral dominance
Treatments and therapies : from antiquity through the seventeenth century
Treatments and therapies : from 1700 to World War I.