Bennett M.R. History of the synapse

Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, 2001. — 334 p.An attempt to provide a history of those discoveries concerning the identification and function of synapses that provide the foundations for research during this new century.The early history of the synapse: from Plato to Sherrington
Emergence of the concept of transmitter release at peripheral and central synapses
The discovery of acetylcholine and the concept of receptors at synapses
The discovery of adrenaline and the concept of autoreceptors at synapses
The discovery of amino acid transmission at synapses in the central nervous system
Monoaminergic synapses and schizophrenia: the discovery of neuroleptics.