Vol 149 (2011)

From electric fish to human brain: an historical overview of European neuroscience from the University of Pisa

Table of Contents

Editorial

From electric fish to human brain: an historical overview of European Neuroscience from the University of Pisa
C. Batini
PDF
1-2

Research Articles

Carlo Matteucci and the legacy of Luigi Galvani
Marco Bresadola
PDF
3-9
Electric fishes research in the nineteenth century, following the steps of Carlo Matteucci and Giuseppe Moruzzi
M. Piccolino
PDF
10-17
Carlo Matteucci, Giuseppe Moruzzi and stimulation of the senses: a visual appreciation
N. J. Wade
PDF
18-28
Matteucci and du Bois-Reymond: a bitter rivalry
G. Finkelstein
PDF
29-37
Neurophysiology to Neuroanatomy: the transition from Claude Bernard to Louis Antoine Ranvier
Anne I Boullerne
PDF
38-46
A conservative revolution: Julius Bernstein and his trip toward a membrane theory.A focus on bioelectrical processes in Mid-Nineteenth Century Germany
G. Pareti, A. De Palma
PDF
47-56
Educating heart and mind: Vincenzo Antinori and scientific culture in Nineteenth century Florence
S. Contardi, M. Miniati
PDF
57-62
Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark (1895-1971): anatomist, anthropologist and neuroscientist
L. Garey
PDF
63-68
Angelo Mosso: a holistic approach to muscular fatigue
C. Di Giulio
PDF
69-76
The great Era of English Electrophysiology: from Francis Gotch to Hodgkin and Huxley
D. D. Marasco
PDF
77-85
From Parma to Pisa: building a great physiological institute
A. Zanchetti
PDF
86-90
The centenary of the Institute of Physiology (1912-2012) and my forty four years at the Institute
L. Luparini
PDF
91-92
The library of the Professor
A. Mammini, L. Iannucci
PDF
93-98
Il moruzzatore
L. Nicotra
PDF
99-103
Memories and after-effects of a year (1958-59) as student and resident at Istituto di Fisiologia in Pisa
T. Lømo
PDF
104-111
The “sacredness” of the scientist: Moruzziin via San Zeno narrated by Mario Tobino
M. Zappella
PDF
112-114
Giuseppe Moruzzi, experimental epilepsy and reticular homeostasis: the French connection
Cesira Batini, A. Beaumanoir, S. Tyc-Dumont
PDF
115-123
Giuseppe Moruzzi’s midpontine pretrigeminal preparation and its continuing importance for neuroscience
Giovanni Berlucchi
PDF
124-130
Sleeping with the clock: pacemaker neurons enter the scene
Marina Bentivoglio, G. Grassi Zucconi
PDF
131-144
Sleep as an instinct: the last experimental research of Giuseppe Moruzzi
D. Musumeci
PDF
145-151
The role of hypnotizability in the construction of individual sensori-motor selves
Enrica Laura Santarcangelo
PDF
152-160
The toxic effect of light on retinal photoreceptors, its mechanism and the protection by endogenous indolamines
P. L. Marchiafava
PDF
161-166
Synaptic plasticity at developing neuromuscular junctions: role of the timing of spike activity in the competing inputs
M. Buffelli, G. Busetto, M. Favero, L. Cangiano, A. Cangiano
PDF
167-174
Historical perspective and modern views on pain physiology: from psychogenic pain to hyperalgesic priming
G. Carli
PDF
175-186
The Fessard’s School of neurophysiology after the Second World War in France: globalisation and diversity in neurophysiological research (1938-1955)
Jean- Gaël Barbara
PDF
187-195
The concept of Consciousness at the Laurentides meeting in 1953
F. Clarac
PDF
196-203
Attention in cat revisited. A critical review of a set of brain explorations in fully alert animals
A. Rougeul-Buser, P. Buser
PDF
204-213
Mircea Steriade, the master of cerebral rhythms
D. A. Nita, C. Steriade
PDF
214-222
Pubblications of Prof. Giuseppe Moruzzi (1930-1986)
G. Moruzzi
PDF
223-235