PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Edwin Smith Papyrus, Lateral Ventricles, Herophilos
19 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
History overview
• Zeitgeist - spirit of the times, literally translate = time spirit or ghost
Date
Who
What
Significance
6500BC
Incas -
Peru
France
trepanation
• Cutting hole in skull to
release demons
Imhotep
Egyptians
Brain versus soul
Edwin Smith Papyrus
• Heart was the seat of the
soul (hegemonikon)
• Feelings, thinking came
from HEART
• BRAIN was discarded e.g.
excerebration = removing
brain before mummification
• Papyrus
• About head wounds
of soldiers
• Brain lesions lead to
distal symptoms
• SHOWED left side of
brain controlled right
side of body and vice
versa
• BRAIN responsible for
SPEECH
• Touching brain can
lead to epileptic
seizures
• Showed specific
functions are
LOCALISED in the
brain (cerebral
localisation)
300BC
Herophilus
of
Chalcedon
Description/Discovery of the ventricles
(localised functions)
• Lateral ventricle (let and
right, 1 and 2)
• 3rd ventricle in the centre
• 4th below (discovered later)
• Idea gave rise to the 3 cell
doctrine
Da Vinci
3 cell theory/doctrine
• Drawing
• Cell 1 = 1 collection of
information from sense
• Cell 2 = cognition/thinking
• Cell 3 = 3 memory
• Localised functions and
form of brain
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