NEUR 2500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe, White Matter

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Trepanation drilling holes in the skull on live patients (to let demons out) Hippocrates believed the brain was the seat of intelligence. Aristotle thought heart was center for intelligence, thought brain acted like a radiator to cool blood that was overheated by the heart. Descartes thought fluid mechanical theory only accounted for part of human capabilities, proposed dualism, mind and body are separate white matter continuous with the nerves of the body contain fibers that bring info to gray metter. Sylivan fissure between frontal lobe and temporal lobe. Bell and magendie dorsal roots carry sensory information, ventral roots carry motor information, transmission is strictly one way dorsal root enters toward the back of the spinal cord ventral root enters toward the front of the spinal cord. Bell proposed that experimental ablation method parts of the brain are systematically destroyed to determine their function. Broca credited with finding localization of function in the cerebrum.

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