1.historical founations of neurooscience Flashcards
Ancinet Greeks
belived that the brain is the organ of sensation.
Hippocrastes
brain not only invovled in sensation but also the of
Aristotle
heart as the seat of mind and soul ,the function of brain is to cool the passions of the heart.
Galen
-developed further the Hippocratic view that the brain (or at least the head) is the seat of the mind. Dessected animals ,identified major division of the brain.
leonardo da Vinci
neuroscients provided deatiled anatomical drawings of the ventricular system in the brain: considered senastion and movements as the passge of “animals soirt” in the hollow nevers (transito della virtu anjmalla).
Rene Descartes
mind body dualism: dualism: mind ,unlike the body,is a nonmaterial (or spirtual ) entity: the mind interacts with the body at the pineal gland.
(In the philosophy of mind, mind–body dualism denotes either the view that mental phenomena are non-physical,[1] or that the mind and body are distinct and separable.[2] Thus, it encompasses a set of views about the relationship between mind and matter, as well as between subject and object, and is contrasted with other positions, such as physicalism and enactivism, in the mind–body problem.)
Thomas Willias
The author of cerebri anatome who compaired human brain to a sheep brain. He argued the spectacular difference is between the cerebral cortex of humans and othet animals . “ He mean the cerebrum is the primary seat of the rational soul in man ,and of the senitive soul in animaks. ( the source of movements and ideas.
Sir Cristopher Wren
cerebri anatome (1664) , he agree “the cerebrum is the primary seat of the rational soul in man and of the sensotive soul in animals .it is the soure of movements and ideas. helped establish that perception,cognition ,movement ,memory are allmfunctions of the brain substans itself
marie -Jean -Pierre
Flourens: Agreagted field theory
founder of experimental brain sciense -the first to carry out experiemental brain lesions (in rabbits and pigeons).
Phineas P.Gage
-a railroad worked who suffered a traumatic brain injury.
Damage to frontal lobes could affect aspects of personality ,emotion regulation,and socially acceptable . behaviour. frontal lobotomy/leucotomy)
Pual Broca (1824-1880):
his famus patient Leborgne who,as a result of stroke lost his ability so speak and was only capable of uttering a word “tan tan tan” (although he could still understand language).
Wernicke’s area
reported a stroke victim who could talk quite freely but made little sense when he spoke: “ you know that smoodle pinkered and that i want to get him round and take care of him like you want before .additionally,he could not understand spoken or writtwn language.
when examining his brain ,Wernicke observed that he hade a lesion in more posterior region of the left hemishere.
the firast areas of the brain to be associated with a specific function:
damage to Broca,s area (Yellow) distrunts language production of expression) . (expressive aphasia).
Damage to Wernicke’s area (pink) disrupts language (receptive aphasia).
franz josph Gall
prenology :he arguted postulated approx.35 specific function that are localized to specfic brain regions
Flourens
. he destroyed part osf the nrains of piggeons and rabbits and observed what happened. he was the first to shown that ,indeed ,ceratin parts of the brin were responsible for ceratin functions ,when he removed the cerebrain.
The evolutionary
It is a perspective often helps us to ask more informed questions and provides insight into how and why the brain functions as it does.
During most of our history,life was given over to mechanisms that enable us to generate theories about the characteristics of human nature therived inside the heads of anacient humans.