对于精神分析和脑功能，参见L. S. Kubie, “Some implications for psychoanalysis of modern concepts of the organization of the brain,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly22 (1953): 21–68; M. Ostow, “A psychoanalytic contribution to the study of brain function. I: The frontal lobes,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly23 (1954): 317–38; 和M. Ostow, “A psychoanalytic contribution to the study of brain function II: The temporal lobes,” Psychoanalytic Quarterly24 (1955): 383–423.
对于细胞学说和神经元学说，参见E. Mayr, The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance(Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap, 1982); P. Mazzarello, The Hidden Structure: The Scientific Biography of Camillo Golgi(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); 和G. M. Shepherd, Foundations of the Neuron Doctrine(New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
谢林顿在一篇题为《纪念拉蒙–卡哈尔》的文章中写到了卡哈尔，此文最初收录在D. F. Cannon, ed., Explorers of the Human Brain: The Life of Santiago Ramón y Cajal(New York: Henry Schuman, 1949). 并重印于J. C. Eccles and W. C. Gibson, Sherrington: His Life and Thought(Berlin: Springer Verlag, 1979); “在描述显微镜下观察到的景象时……”摘自第204页；“卡哈尔通过观察染色固定的脑切片……”摘自第204–5页；“把他称作有史以来神经系统方面……”摘自第203页。
卡哈尔的自传Recollections of My Life于1937年由E. H. Craigie and J. Cano翻译，收录于Am Philos. Soc. Mem. 8; 在第324–25页，他将细胞类比成“繁茂的森林”；在第553页，他将自己与高尔基类比成“暹罗双胞胎”。高尔基的诺贝尔讲座翻印自他的Opera Omnia，ed. L. Sala, E. Veratti, and G. Sala, vol. 4 (Milan: Hoepl, 1929); 引文摘自第1259页；它被译成英文时题为“The neuron theory: Theory and facts,” in Nobel Lectures: Physiology or Medicine, 1901–1921, ed. Nobel Foundation (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1967).
霍奇金关于科学嫉妒心的描述出自他的“Autobiographical essay,” in The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography, ed. L. R. Squire, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: Society for Neuroscience, 1996); 引文摘自第254页。达尔文关于同一主题的评论出自R. K. Merton, “Priorities in scientific discovery: A chapter in the sociology of science,” Am. Soc. Rev. 22 (1957): 635–59.
更多关于谢林顿的生活和研究的信息，参见C. Sherrington, The Integrative Action of the Nervous System(New Haven: Yale University Press, 1906); 和R. Granit, Charles Scott Sherrington: A Biography of the Neurophysiologist(Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966).
罗伯特·霍尔特关于弗洛伊德的评论出自F. J. Sulloway, Freud, Biologist of the Mind(New York: Basic Books, 1979), 第17页。弗洛伊德自己谈到这段快乐时光出自W. R. Everdell, The First Moderns(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997), 第131页。
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