PSY 3460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Demonic Possession, Chlorpromazine, Narcolepsy
19 Sep 2016
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As far back at 7,000 years ago people used trepanation or drilling holes in the skill, to cure afflictions such as demonic possession. Regrowth around some of the holes indicate that some of the patients survived. More recently, trephining has resurfaced as a diy process, possible as a type of self injury. 350 bce, aristotle believed the brain was not an important organ: the heart was thought to be the seat of the soul and source of controlling nerves. Hippocrates thought the brain was the seat of emotions and perceptions. 2nd century ad animal dissection: the brain was considered the center of nerves that caused sensation and movement. 2nd century ad, galen identified 4 fluid which gave off vapors that ascended to the brain. A person"s characteristics were explained by the humours: blood: carried vital living spirit, phlegm: caused sluggishness, black bile: melancholy, yellow bile: temper.
