PSYCH 202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Diffusion Mri, Ct Scan, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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7,000 years ago: trephining/trepanation - drilling holes into skull to cure. Mind body dualism: philosophical perspective by descartes that the body is mechanistic, while the mind is separate and non-physical. Monism: what modern neuroscience is based on. Explain how phrenology does and does not relate to modern understanding of brain function. Phrenology: misguided effort to correlate character traits with bumps in the skull. Moved us away from the metaphysical, nonlocalized view of the brain that had persisted from the time of descartes. Instead, gall and spurzheim proposed a more modern view of brain as organ of by mind. Summarize the 19 techniques used to study the nervous system. Histology: study of cells and tissues at the microscopic level. -microtome: a device used to make very thin slices of tissue for histology. Autopsy: examination of body tissues following death, studying structure of nervous system following death. Computerized tomography: imaging technology where computers enhance x-ray pics.