Biological base

Question 1

Who believed that nerves were controlled in the heart? So the heart was the base of mental life?

Answer 1

Aristotle

Question 2

Who described the brain as the source of nerves and the heart as the source of arteries and innate heat?

Answer 2

Galen

Question 3

What did the Galen system assume?

Answer 3

Natural spirits circulate the body. Transformed to animal spirits in the brain.

Question 4

What was this system dominant in?

Answer 4

Western culture for 1300 years

Question 5

What experiments did Luigi Galvani (1737-1798) do?

Answer 5

Relationship between electricity and animation

Question 6

Who developed these ideas?

Answer 6

Debois- Raymond.

Question 7

What did Raymond develop these into?

Answer 7

Shoed that electric energy transferred from the nerves to the muscles.

Question 8

Who continued to unveil the structure of the nervous system?

Answer 8

Sherrington, Golgi.

Question 9

In the first years of the 20th century what did Henry Dale/Otto Locwi find?

Answer 9

Neurotransmitters

Question 10

Even through all of this information what did it not help to clarify?

Answer 10

Nature of the processes that occur in the brain