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Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
Abrams
November 2010
On Sale: November 1, 2010
240 pages
ISBN: 0810990334
EAN: 9780810990333
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Portraits of the Mind follows the fascinating history of our
exploration of the brain through images, from medieval
sketches and 19th-century drawings by the founder of modern
neuroscience to images produced using state-of-the-art
techniques, allowing us to see the fantastic networks in the
brain as never before. These black-and-white and vibrantly
colored images, many resembling abstract art, are employed
daily by scientists around the world, but most have never
before been seen by the general public. Each chapter
addresses a different set of techniques for studying the
brain as revealed through the images, and each is introduced
by a leading scientist in that field of study. Author Carl
Schoonover’s captions provide detailed explanations of each
image as well as the major insights gained by scientists
over the course of the past 20 years. Accessible to a wide
audience, this book reveals the elegant methods applied to
study the mind, giving readers a peek at its innermost
workings, helping us to understand them, and offering clues
about what may lie ahead.
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