The desire to think more clearly, remember more reliably, and reason more sharply is not a modern...
The Brain in History and Culture
In October 1949, the Nobel Committee in Stockholm awarded the Prize in Physiology or Medicine to António...
In the summer of 1870, two Prussian military physicians named Gustav Fritsch and Eduard Hitzig sat at...
For most of recorded history, the brain was understood as a continuous, undifferentiated tissue — something more...
In 1884, a 28-year-old Viennese neurologist named Sigmund Freud published a paper titled “Über Coca” — On...
World War II was, among many other things, the largest pharmacological experiment in human history. By the...
In the first half of the 19th century, having your head read by a phrenologist was something...
Every morning, roughly two billion cups of coffee are consumed worldwide. The number is so large it...