History of the Synapse
Author | : Max R. Bennett |
Publisher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780203302545 |
ISBN-13 | : 0203302540 |
Rating | : 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: The History of the Synapse provides a history of those discoveries concerning the identification and function of synapses that provide the foundations for research during this new century with a personal view of the process by which new concepts have developed. Previously published as essays, the chapters in this book provide a history of various aspects of synaptic function, beginning with the evolution over two and a half thousand years and how progress was made in the establishment of a conceptual structure that would allow the synapse to be identified at the beginning of the 20th century. Numerous illustrations explain either the technical approach or the experimental finding.