Tenta antti-namn

Question 1

Karl Popper

Answer 1

Truthlikeness, falsifiabilty

Question 2

Plato

Answer 2

Did not accept all of this materialist humoral theory. He believed in a Soul with three parts.

Question 3

aristotle

Answer 3

Believed that the function of the brain as to cool down hot blood. The cardiocentric view.

Question 4

Hippocrate

Answer 4

brain disease comes from the brain and not evil spirit

Question 5

Galenos

Answer 5

the ventricle theory- Speech does not come from the chest and the brain does not cool down blood. Vital spirits – heart. Higher animal spirits – the brain. Nerves as tubes where animal spirits flow. The brain (but not brain tissue) as the seat of the soul and intellect.

Question 6

Galvani

Answer 6

Discovered in 1786 that electrical stimulation of the nerves in a frog´s leg caused muscle contractions. Electrotherapy or Galvanism grew even more popular in the 1800s as a cure-all treatment.

Question 7

Andreas vesalius

Answer 7

Made a detailed description of the body based on dissections of the human body. Rejected the ventrical theory.

Question 8

Renee decartes

Answer 8

The soul is really joined to the whole body. The soul has its principal seat in the middle of the brain.

Question 9

Cajal

Answer 9

Discovered that neurons are individual cells. The neuron theory

Question 10

Golgi

Answer 10

The reticular theory. Everything in the nervous system, the brain, is a single continuous network.

Question 11

Flourens

Answer 11

A strict disciple of Descartes, led the reaction against phrenology. He believed in a unified mind or soul which could not be analysed into separate parts. Flourens studied the effect of galvanic stimulation and focal lesions (precisely placed damage) of particular parts of the brain. He correctly concluded three things
1. Intellect is largely concentrated in the cerebral cortex.

2. The cerebellum is important for coordination of motor movements.
3. The lower brain sustains vital body functions.

Question 12

Emanuel Swedenborg

Answer 12

Functional localization

Question 13

Broca

Answer 13

Demonstrated that disorders of speech are associated with damage in a region of the left frontal lobe.

Question 14

Wernicke

Answer 14

Word salad – neologism. In 1874 he discovered that damage to an area of the temporal lobe, close to tissue involved in hearing (the auditory cortex), resulted in another type of language disorder.

Question 15

Frantz joseph gall

Answer 15

The man of phrenology. Collected skulls, was interested in extremes like writers, poets, criminals and lunatics.

Question 16

Wilder Penfield

Answer 16

Was able to use stimulation of conscious patients undergoing brain surgery.

Question 17

Broddmann

Answer 17

Published his maps of cortical areas in humans, monkeys and other species.

Question 18

Hans Berger

Answer 18

Is knows as the inventor of eeg

Question 19

Theodor Shwann

Answer 19

the cell theory