Cover of The War of the Soups and the Sparks

The War of the Soups and the Sparks

by Elliot S. Valenstein

2005 256 pages eng

The question of how nerves communicate with one another was the subject of a heated & protracted dispute between pharmacologists & neurophysiologists. This book recalls the debate & how the theory of chemical transmission was eventually confirmed by the discovery of neurotransmitters.

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