PSYC 3458 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Tetrodotoxin, Patch Clamp, Multiple Sclerosis
25 Apr 2017
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Most abundant cell in brain provides nutrients and scaffolding and nervous system repair. Lines exterior surface of neurons in pns and provides support. Produces cerebrospinal uid producing cells and line ventricles. Likely written by imhotep in 30th century bc. Drilling holes in the head to release demons (6500 bc) Performed dissections and established connection between brain and sensory organs. Believed the heart was the seat of intelligence and that the brain cooled the blood via its. The brain is the seat of intelligence; observed soldiers with head injuries. Imbalance of one of four uids (blood, phlegm, black and yellow bile) led to disease connected ventricles to body and was helped by bloodletting. Dissected human cadavers and described characteristics of the brain. Brain is a machine and uid from the brain contracts muscles via the pineal gland. One area of the brain can take over the functions of another if it is damaged de ed gall"s theory that regions are static.
