NROC69H3 Lecture Notes - Thoracic Vertebrae, Motor Cortex, Inferior Colliculus
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Readings: chapter 7: pages 168 170; chapter 1: pages 1 - 18. Ancient greeks: the organ of sensation but debate on if it is the seat of intelligence. Homira osman: galen recognized to form memories, sensations must be imprinted onto the brain this occurs in the doughy cerebrum, galen cut open the brain and found that it is hollow. In these hollow spaces, called ventricles, there is fluid. According to galen, the body functions as a balance of four vital fluid, or humors. Sensations were registered and movements initiated by the movement of humors to or from the brain ventricles via the nerves, which were believed to be hollow tubes, like blood vessels. Renaissance to 19th century: mechanistic view and the pineal gland: galen s view of the brain prevailed for almost 1500 years, more details was added to the structure of the brain by the great anatomist. Andreas vesalius during the renaissance: ventricular localization of brain function.
