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Previous Volume 339:207 July 16, 1998 Number 3

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By Louise H. Marshall and Horace W. Magoun. 322 pp. Totowa, N.J., Humana Press, 1998. $59.50. ISBN 0-89603-435-6.

As the decade of the brain draws to a close, it is worthwhile to review some of the progress made in advancing our knowledge of this fascinating and enigmatic structure. Louise Marshall (director of the Neuroscience History Archives at the Brain Research Institute) and Horace Magoun (a noted research neuroscientist who unfortunately died before the completion of this book) have taken on a huge subject, but they have succeeded in rendering it not only comprehensible, in spite of the convoluted twists and blind alleys that constitute the development of neuroscience, but also genuinely interesting. Their presentation allows the story to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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