NROB60H3 Chapter 1: Detailed textbook notes
23 Oct 2011
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Skull showed signs of healing indicated that surgery was carried out on live subjects: greek scholars concluded that the brain is the organ of sensation, hippocrates. The father of western medicine stated that the brain is involved with intelligence along with sensation. (this view is not universally unacceptable: aristotle. Believed that the heart was the centre of intellect , which has the capacity for knowledge & understanding: roman medicine, galen. Identified 2 major parts of the brain: the cerebrum and cerebellum. Suggested that the cerebrum must be recipient of sensation where as the cerebellum must command the muscles. Discovered the ventricles in the brain which contained fluid inside. In summary he predicted that sensations were registered & movements were initiated my movement of humors (fluids) to or from the brain ventricles through the nerves: renaissance, andreas vesalius (anatomist) Ventricular localization of the brain function is hydraulically controlled: rene descartes.
