HMB200H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Dementia, Sensory Processing Disorder, Neuropathology
1 May 2014
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Trepanation the process of boring holes into people"s skulls with the aim to cure. There is a very clear correlation between structure and function: differences in appearance predict differences in function. Hippocrates (460-379) stated his belief that the brain not only was involved in sensation but also was the seat of intelligence. Aristotle (384-322) clung to the belief that the heart was the center of intellect: he reserved the function for the brain as a radiator for the cooling of blood that was overheated by the seething heart. View of the brain during the roman empire: Galen (130-200) embraced the hippocratic view of brain function: influenced by animal dissections, 2 major parts were evident: Cerebrum in the front and rather soft: recipient of sensations & perceptions, repository of memory. Cerebellum in the back and rather hard: command the muscles, movement control center, hollow spaces in the brain.
