Systems Lecture 1

Question 1

what is history

Answer 1

a search for the objective truth about the past

- but not a record of the past, fiction of historians themselves

Question 2

how they studied brain in ancient Greece and rome

Answer 2

differences in brain part appearance, removed certain structures to see if parts were important or not

Question 3

Hippocrates thought ____ was involved in intellect/ intelligence

Answer 3

brain

Question 4

Aristotle thought _____ was involved in intellect/intelligence and ______ involved in memory

Answer 4

heart in intelligence and thought

brain in memory

Question 5

Galen thoughts about brain and heart

- how did he study the brain?

Answer 5

brain = thought
heart = pump
- animal dissections –> poked parts of brain

cerebellum = rubbery = muscle movement

cerebrum = spongy = sensory and memory

Question 6

balance of the four humours in ventricles… what id they stand for

Answer 6

phlegm: lazy/slow
black bile: mood
Yellow bile: violent
Blood: happy/healthy

Question 7

what did rene Descartes believe about the mind

Answer 7

it is a spiritual entity that receives sensations and commands movements by communicating with the brain via the pineal gland

Question 8

gyrus means

Answer 8

bumps

Question 9

sulcus means

Answer 9

grooves

Question 10

bell and megendie contributed what to neuroscience

Answer 10

studied dorsal and ventral roots dorsal-sensory ventral-motor

Question 11

explain phrenology

Answer 11

head bumps –> personality

Question 12

paul brocas contribution to neuroscience

Answer 12

limbic region (emotion)
broca's area --> language production

Question 13

what is the neuron doctrine and who came up with is

Answer 13

neurosystem is made up of neurons -Cajal

Question 14

what is cell theory and who came up with it

Answer 14

first proposed building block of brain - Schwann

Question 15

who studied the olfactory bulb

Answer 15

Golgi - Golgi staining - sketched it out after staining many sections