PSYC10003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Eyelid, Andreas Vesalius, Ice Pick
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Note: everything on the slides/notes is examinable, everything not on it, is not examinable. Behavioural neuroscience: the scientific study of the role of the cns in behaviour. 1848 - phineas gage: case study: tamping iron through the brain, through the frontal lobe, frontal lobe is in charge of personality, he became impulsive, had difficulty in making logical decisions, was unable to plan for the future. Historically, the heart was believed to be the seat of the mind. It is logical to assume this, ex: heart rate changes when we are in fear, etc. Changes to our understanding of the brain were limited by: religious or moral views, limited methods, reliance on chance discoveries (serendipity, scientific conservatism (people don"t want to reject ideas that are already part of the status quo) 460 bce - hippocrates first proposed that the brain controlled the body: four bodily "humours" (earth, air, fire & water, an imbalance of the humours cause disorder of the mind/disease.
