PSY346H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Rete Mirabile, Barbary Macaque, Humorism
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First to believe that the brain was the controlling center rather than the heart. Viewed conditions such as epilepsy as a natural brain disease. Proposed humoral theory= early physical theory of mental illness that believed that 4. Chapter 2: research, treatment, and points of view: historical perspectives: Dr. patrik brundin= participated in the first human clinical trials that gave parkinson"s patients fetal brain tissue transplants. Hippocrates ( c. 460-370 bce)= aka father of medicine humors or liquids blood and was treated w. Craniotomy= early physical therapy in which a section of a patient"s skull was removed in an attempt to restore balance to the four humors, leading to recovery from mental illness. Experiment= research technique in which variables are purposively manipulated in a systematic way to test or establish a hypothesis. Ventricles= internal capsules in the medial part of the brain that contain cerebrospinal fluid contributed to mental illness when they became unbalanced.
