PSY290H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Paul Broca, Neurosurgery, Trepanning
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Ancient treatment= trephining in the stone age. Edwin smith papyrus: 1500 b. c. e, damage in brain linked with early paralysis, treatment of diseases and behavioural disorders, brain is described. The science of brain and behaviour span past, present, and future: Early egyptians and greeks, including aristotle, thought the heart was the seat of mental capacities o. Aristotle believed that the heart was the source for warming blood. Hippocrates wrote of the brain as the seat of thoughts and emotions. Galen"s experience in treating brain-injured gladiators led him to propose that behaviour results from connections between the brain and nerves o. Renaissance artist and scientist leonardo da vinci pioneered anatomical drawings, including the use of cross-sections o. Rene descartes (1596-1650: explained animal behaviour in terms of a machine, proposed the concept of spinal reflexes and their neural pathways o. Rational behaviour can be explained by workings of the nervous system: no need for non-material mind, sent electrical signals through frogs.
