01:830:310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Double-Entry Bookkeeping System, Frontal Lobe, Andreas Vesalius
30 Jul 2016
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Holes made in the skull to relieve pressure on the brain. Cardiac hypothesis - idea that the heart is the seat of such emotions as love and anger. Believed the brain was the seat of intelligence and controller of senses, emotions, and movement. Believed the mind controlled fluids known as pneuma (animal spirits) Physical functioning was dictated by the balance of four bodily fluids or humors -- blood, mucus, yellow bile, black bile. Galen knew most about animal brains, had performed dissections. Vesalius (anatomist) made detailed diagrams of human brain anatomy. Thomas willis published first book on the brain and nerves. Descartes - dualism, mind is immaterial, brain is material. Materialism - all that exists is physical, so no mind. Monism - mind and brain are identical. Dual aspect theory - two views on same thing. Dual property - two properties of the same entity.
