Wallace Mendelson, M.D., is a Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Pharmacology (retired) at the University of Chicago.
is a Professor of Psychiatry and Clinical Pharmacology at the University of Chicago. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a past president of the Sleep Research Society. His most recent books include
; The Psychoanalyst and the Nazi Nobelist: The Curious Story of Sigmund Freud and Julius Wagner-Jauregg; Fragile Brilliance: The Troubled Lives of Herman Melville,Fragile Brilliance: The Troubled Lives of Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, and Other Great AuthorsNepenthe's Children: The history of the discoveries of medicines for sleep and anesthesiaAbsinthe Makes the Heart Grow FonderExperts have pondered the ever-increasing toll of drinking in Edgar Allan Poe's life...
Personality qualities as well as scientific findings contributed to the decades-long debate between Santiago Ramón y Cajal and Camillo Golgi, which gave birth to neuroscience.The roots of neuroscience are deeply embedded in World War II, and understanding it is aided by looking at how its early leaders affected, and were affected, by it.
Camillo Golgi held on to the belief that the brain is comprised of one vast reticulum, long after it was established that neurons are the building blocks of the nervous system.Part II: With Dickinson, like other figures such as Herman Melville and Charles Darwin, the life of the writer has been as rich a source of fascination as the writings themselves.
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