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A History of the Brain Episodes

  1.

    Einstein's Brain

    10/10 Dr Geoff Bunn discusses the impact of neurology on how we understand ourselves today.

  2. All or Nothing

    9/10 The impact of the electroencephalograph (EEG), which made brain waves visible.

  3. The Agony and the Ecstasy

    8/10 Dr Geoff Bunn on how chemical transmission became a fundamental concept in neuroscience.

  4. Mind the Gap

    7/10 Dr Geoff Bunn discovers that Freud's original contribution was via the microscope.

  5. The Beast Within

    6/10 The influence of evolutionary theory, phrenology and a hole in Phineas Gage's head.

  6. The Spark of Being

    5/10 Dr Geoff Bunn examines the influence of the 18th-century preoccupation with electricity.

  7. Spirits in the Material World

    4/10 Thomas Willis's pioneering attempt to correlate brain anatomy with function.

  8. The Origin of Common Sense

    3/10 Dr Geoff Bunn on early Christian and Islamic contributions to understanding of the brain.

  9. 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

  10. A Hole in the Head

    1/10 Dr Geoff Bunn reflects on trepanation at the start of his cultural history of the brain.