Stefano Sandrone and Lorenzo Lorusso - The Birth of Modern Neuroscience in Turin

This is a long overdue, erudite presentation of the major role of Turin in shaping modern neurosciences, from Luigi Rolando to Rita Levi-Montalcini. It contributes to a growing critical interest in the interactions among European research centers, while giving original insights on the relationship between scientific institutions and the economic and sociocultural environment.

Laura Bossi, neurologist and science historian, Paris Diderot University

This is a beautifully written book, presenting the key figures of modern neuroscience from Turin. The authors shed a unique light when discussing these historical giants providing descriptions of the people and their works that make the book equally exciting to scientists and to lay readers. As a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, I cannot avoid emphasizing the chapter on Rita Levi-Montalcini: One would argue that nothing new could be said about Rita after dozens of books have been written about her, yet another angle to discuss this exceptional character has been explored. Overall, a delightful book!

Professor Jonathan Kipnis, Washington University, St. Louis

This fascinating collection of essays shows how, for a long time, Turin was the hub of European neuroscience, from anatomy to physiology and anthropology, from brain preservation to plasticity, neural growth and regeneration, and from neurology to neuropsychology and psychiatry.

Emeritus Professor Jan van Gijn, University of Utrecht

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Stefano Sandrone and Lorenzo Lorusso editor.

Title: The birth of modern neuroscience in Turin

Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] |

Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2021025250 (print) | LCCN 2021025251 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780190907587 (hardback) | ISBN 9780190907600 (epub) |

ISBN 9780190907617 (online)

Subjects: MESH: Neuroscienceshistory | Neurologyhistory | Neurologists |

History, 18th Century | Italy

Classification: LCC QP360 (print) | LCC QP360 (ebook) | NLM WL 11 GI8 |

DDC 612.8/2330945121dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021025250

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021025251

DOI: 10.1093/med/9780190907587.001.0001

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