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Einstein's Brain
10/10 Dr Geoff Bunn discusses the impact of neurology on how we understand ourselves today.
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All or Nothing
9/10 The impact of the electroencephalograph (EEG), which made brain waves visible.
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
8/10 Dr Geoff Bunn on how chemical transmission became a fundamental concept in neuroscience.
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Mind the Gap
7/10 Dr Geoff Bunn discovers that Freud's original contribution was via the microscope.
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The Beast Within
6/10 The influence of evolutionary theory, phrenology and a hole in Phineas Gage's head.
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The Spark of Being
5/10 Dr Geoff Bunn examines the influence of the 18th-century preoccupation with electricity.
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Spirits in the Material World
4/10 Thomas Willis's pioneering attempt to correlate brain anatomy with function.
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The Origin of Common Sense
3/10 Dr Geoff Bunn on early Christian and Islamic contributions to understanding of the brain.
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The Blood of the Gladiators
2/10 Dr Geoff Bunn moves on to the debate in Ancient Greece as to the primacy of heart or brain
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A Hole in the Head
1/10 Dr Geoff Bunn reflects on trepanation at the start of his cultural history of the brain.