PSYB65H3 Study Guide - Basal Ganglia, Somatic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System
13 Dec 2013
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Psychology has a long past, but a short history hermann ebbinghaus. Written record of the understanding of our selves is limited, only 10,000 years. Humans have developed to be the only species that think about dying and death. Surgical procedure that a hole is made in the skull, and some people survive. Reasons: medical or magical: after trauma, swelling occurs and removing part of the skull can help during the healing process, maybe they were trying to understand psychological phenomena but actually going into the skull. Craniotomy/ectomy removing the brain flap (same idea: depressed skull fractures which is pushing the bone into the brain, removing the bone helps as treatment, icp monitoring/treatment swelling in the brain and relieving the pressure. Subdural/epidural hematomas: deep brain stimulation for people with parkinson"s. Cephalocentric behaviours are caused from inside the brain: alcmaeon of croton, hippocrates, plato.
