PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Andreas Vesalius, Scientific Method, Deep Brain Stimulation
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Scientific study of the relationship between behavior (internal and external) and the brain. Draws from many disciplines, including anatomy, biology, pharmacology, and philosophy. Experimental vs clinical; have to have an experiment in-order for it to be clinical (feed off one another) Hermann: did his own experiments on himself; The brain is the source of behaviour (allows the internal of behavior) The unit of the brain structure and function is the neuron (brick holding up house) Trephination (surgical procedure/ putting holes in skull) Craniotomy/ectomy (blood force trauma: depressed skull fractures. Cephalometric (brain is the seat of mind and behavior) *: alcmaeon, hippocrates, plato. Cardiocentric (center of the mind/behavior is the heart) *: empedocles of acragas, aristotle. Nature and locus of the mind (believed mind was material; religious) Prior to 500 bce, medical practice was controlled by priest"s/ templar physicians. Hippocrates (460-377 bce) founder of modern medicine.
