PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cytochrome P450, Hippocratic Oath, Encephalization Quotient
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Skulls with holes with them to treat medical reasons, magical (obtain mystical powers) all anti modem before they died. Cephalocentric: focus on the brain (alcmaeon, hippocrates, plato) Alcmaeon: created a medical school, holistic approach (new age) Elemental theory of matter air, water, earth, fire. Hippocrates: hippocratic oath: do no harm founder of modern medicine. Documented the connection between motor and sensor behaviour (left/right hemisphere of the brain) Contralateral organization in the brain: right side brain/ left side body. Cardio centric: focus on the heart (empedocles, aristotle) Aristotle: psyche (non-material, human thought, perception and emotion) Brain hypothesis brain is the seed of the behaviour. Dark ages: everything science or philosophy related was shut down. 15th & 16th century: discovery continues, gutenberg pressed created. We are not the center of the universe. Used a method of manipulation and measuring variables. Common brain structure with fish, frog, and birds. Dualism: mind and body are separate but interact.
