PSYB65H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Vagus Nerve, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Lobotomy
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Psychology is the study of behaviour- describe, explain and predict behavior. Neuropsychology is also the study of behaviour but it is also the study of the relation between behaviour and the activity of the brain. Clinical psychology is concerned with psychological assessment, management, and rehabilitation of neurological disease and injury. Experimental psychology focuses on how human behaviour arises from brain activity: explains how patterns of behavioural impairments can be explained in terms of disruption to the damaged neural component. Heart, mind, and brain: the early history of neuropsychology. Cardiac, cardiocentric hypothesis: empedocles was a philosopher who believed that the heart was the source of human behavior. Aristotle came to the same conclusion and concluded the heart was the source of thoughts and sensation, the brain served as a radiator, cooling the blood. Cephalocentric hypothesis/ brain hypothesis: argues by hippocrates and galen that the brain is responsible for function.