PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Deep Brain Stimulation, Pharmacology, Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Lecture 1: history of neuropsychology & evolution of nervous system. Neurons are important in our brain due to the fact it tells us why we have empathy, why we became like this, and how we became like this and etc. Neuropsychology scientific study of the relationship between behaviour and brain; it comes includes many different fields when looking at neuro which includes anatomy, biology, pharmacology and philosophy. People are able to use the standpoint of neuropsychology in terms with experimental viewpoint or clinical view point: there is huge difference between experimental ad clinical. You need to have experiment with clinical. Psychology has a long past but only a short history by hermann ebbinghaus; the outline of psychology (1902: he is famous for his own self experimentation but experimenting memory. Memory in terms with how people lose memory or gain memory. He would experiment it on him self by remembering random sort of things.
