PSYB65H3 Chapter 1: Introduction to Neuropsychology
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The 10% myth y animals could perform basic functions even after destroying 90% of brain y however there is no part of the brain that does not have some function. Psychology: attempt to describe explain and predict behaviour. Neuropsychology: study relation between behaviour and the activity of the brain; assume behaviour is in part the result of activity in the brain. Clinical neuropsychology: concerned with psychological assessment, management, and rehabilitation of neurological disease and injury. Experimental neuropsychology/cognitive neuropsychology/cognitive neuroscience: how human behaviour arises from brain activity; also how impairments can be described by damaged parts. Hear, mind, and brain: the early history of neuropsychology. : matter composed of 4 elements, heart is source of behaviour. Cardiac/cardiocentric hypothesis: heart is source of behaviour; is referred to in common culture ex. : came to same conclusion as heart is warm, thought brain cooled blood. Galen (ad 129-199): brain hypothesis; also thought ventricles play role in cognition.
