PSYC 355 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Temporal Lobe, Desiderative Mood, Phineas Gage

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 355
• Professor: Stephane Gaskin

Document Summary

Origins of neuroscience: prehistoric ancestors: brain was vital to life, skull surgeries. Evidence: trepanation: boring holes in each other"s skull with the aim to cure: skulls showed signs of healing, indicating that the subjects were alive at the time. Phineas gage: functions of the frontal lobe altered after a metal rod went through his skull, his character changed, learn through accidents, study the malfunctions of the brain, brocca"s area: language. Henry miller: had epilepsy, medial temporal lobe to cure the epilepsy, they sucked out his hippocampus, frontal lobotamies: walter freedman. , view of the brain - ancient greece. Structure and function analysis, figuring out an object"s function, by looking at it"s structure. Aristotle: the heart was the center of intellect and emotion: feel emotion in the body not the brain (sensation, the brain was a radiator that cooled the blood, tempered the seething heart. (rational. Hippocrates: brain is the origin of sensation and the seat for intelligence.