PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Electric Charge, Postcentral Gyrus, White Matter

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Neuropsychologists attempt to describe, explain, predict, and change behavior. Neuropsychology is the study of the relation between behavior and the activity of the brain. 1. clinical neuropsychology: the branch of neuropsychology concerned with psychologi- cal assessment, management and rehabilitation of neurological disease and injury. Experimental neuropsychology: focuses on how human behavior arises from brain activity which includes explaining how patterns of behavioral impairments. Heart, mind and brain: the early history of neuropsychology. Aristotle (384-322 bc) came to the same conclusion, although fro different reasons. - heart warm-so thought that it was the source of thought and sensation- and that it was like a radiator to cool blood. Hippocrates (450-350bc) and galen (ad 129-199)-argued that the brain was responsi- ble for these actions. This view is called cephalocentric hypothesis or brain hypothesis. Trephination: process of sawing into the skull. Brain viewed as a passive interpreter of signals, and mind was viewed as separate en- tity from the brain.

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