RT Journal
A1 Schulman S
T1 TIme and the nervous system
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 1989
FD November 10
VO 262
IS 18
SP 2615
OP 2615
DO 10.1001/jama.1989.03430180161056
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1989.03430180161056
AB This small book by a distinguished British neurologist is an outcome of his years of reflection on disorders of human cortical function, and on an insight that came to him one day with such force and suddenness that he recalls the precise circumstances—driving his car near Alton in Hampshire on March 18, 1959. The insight was that "the brain is the place or mechanism or medium by which time is converted into space and space into time."The book amounts to a collection of short discourses on a diversity of topics ranging from the elementary anatomy of the nerve cell, the general plan of the central nervous system, and clinical disorders of orientation in space and time to the conflicting notions of time held by various physicists and philosophers and the evolution of cosmologies from prehistory to the present.The treatment of the medical and neurobiological topics is cursory, generally