PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Functional Neuroimaging, Cytoarchitecture, Histology
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Neuropsychology is the study of the relation between brain activity and the behaviour. Clinical neuropsychology: rehabillitation of neurological disease & injury. activity attributing impairments to brain damage. Heart, mind, and brain: the early history of neuropsychology. B) brain/cephalocentric hypothesis: hippocrates, galen, both were incorrect about specific details but shared a correct view importance of the brain in behaviour. Reflexive behaviours are a result of animal spirits flowing through valvules this did not account for voluntary behaviour though. He believed that voluntary action is the result of the interaction btwn body and mind in the pineal gland. Only structure in the brain that"s unitary and is also surrounded by. Therefore, stimulation produces small movements of pineal gland = release animal spirits = movement of the body. Current analogies of the brain resemble current technologies. 1 problem computer analogy fails to account for variability in behaviour. Opposing view to mind-body view = monism. Monism = min and body are unitary.
