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Dr Geoff Bunn relates how exiles from Nazism helped establish that synaptic transmission is chemical. Show more
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Dr Geoff Bunn discusses the electro-encephalograph (EEG) and its impact on neuroscience. Show more
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Dr Geoff Bunn discusses Einstein's brain and the impact of neurology on how we understand ourselves today. Show more
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Dr Geoff Bunn demonstrates the influence of evolutionary theory, phrenology and a hole in Phineas Gage's head. From November 2011. Show more
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Dr Geoff Bunn discovers that Freud's original contribution was via the microscope with images of neurons. From November 2011. Show more
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Beginning his trip through 5,000 years of human understanding of our brain, Dr Geoff Bunn looks at trepanation and why Ancient Egypt believed the brain had no use in the afterlife. Show more
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Dr Geoff Bunn discovers how much we owe to Ancient Greece when it comes to brain science, and to Hippocrates in particular. Show more
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Dr Geoff Bunn's journey through 5,000 years of human understanding of our brain. Early Christian and Islamic contributions. Show more
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Dr Geoff Bunn explains Thomas Willis's pioneering attempt in 1650 to correlate brain anatomy with function. Show more
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Dr Geoff Bunn examines the influence of the 18th-century preoccupation with electricity. Show more
