Exam 1 Flashcards
Case 1
Trey
5 year old boy who jumped up crying and ran to his mom
alert at first but then became lethargic
neuroimaging was done
died 8 hours later
who thought the heart was the seat of mental capacities;
the brain’s job was to cool the blood
Aristotle
Brain at a circuit level
Local Neural Circuit
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Brain at a cellular level
singular neuron
Molecular Level
Membrane Receptor
Organ Level
Brain, Spinal Cord, Peripheral Nerves, and eyes
Neural System Level
Eyes and visual brain regions
Brain region Level
Eyes and visual brain regions
Circuit Level
Local Neural Circuit
Aristotle’s contribution to the brain
thought the heart was the seat of mental capacities;
the brain’s job was to cool the blood
Hippocrates’s contribution to the brain
the brain was the seat of emotion
Galen’s contribution to the brain
Behavioral changes in brain-injured gladiators
What happened in 400 BCE
euphoriant affect on poppy reported in sumeria
2700 BCE
Shen Nung Originates Acupunture
1700 bce
SMITH SURGICal papyrus, first writing about the nervous system
177
Galen lectures on the brain
1000
Al-Zahrawi describes surgical treatments for neurological disorders
1402
St. Mary of Bethlehem Hospital is used exclusively for the mentally ill
Old Phrenology
In the 19th century phrenology assigned seperate functions to cortical areas
bumps overlied brain regions that matched to the brain behaviors/skills/personality
What is the sacred disease called
Epilepsy
Case 2
14 year old girl, had a seizure
could not move her left arm or see to her left
short and thin; hard of hearing
Came back to the ER Unable to move her left arm, and hearing was worse
Neuron Doctrine
Composed of independent cells
Signals transmitted across synapses
Who made the neuron doctrine
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Used Golgi’s cell stain method to see neurons
Camilio Golgi was his enemy
Gained a noble prize in 1906
3 kinds of neurons
Unipolar, multiipolar, and bipolar
