Cecile and Oskar Vogt: The Visionaries of Modern Neuroscience |  | Authors: I. Klatzo, Igor Klatzo
Creator: G. Zu Rhein
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book
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Pages: 130
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Dimensions (in): 11.1 x 8.3 x 0.6
ISBN: 3211837981
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9783211837986
ASIN: 3211837981
Publication Date: August 26, 2004
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The last decades of the past century have brought relentless progress in molecular genetics, opening dramatic opportunities for modifying human life by gene therapy or by cloning new human beings endowed with programmed characteristics. In this frenzy of new discoveries the names of Cecile and Oskar Vogt, who one hundred years ago envisaged these developments and laid the foundation for modern, genetically oriented neuroscience, have been practically forgotten. This makes most timely the treatise by Igor Klatzo, who, shortly after World War II, spent several years with the Vogts at their Brain Research Institute in the Black Forest, Germany, and then continued his brain research as the Chief of the Laboratory of Neuropathology and Neuroanatomical Sciences at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. The greatness of the Vogts is based both on their penetrating vision of the future for brain research and on the sterling quality of their character, which sustained a "test of fire" during the Nazi years in Germany. Klatzo brings, in addition to the recognition of the Vogts' greatness in pioneering modern brain research, a lively picture of their personalities, which includes their struggles against the rigid rules of society, and against political suppression, the latter associated with the risk of their lives.
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