PSYC 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Danvers State Hospital, Traumatic Brain Injury, Frontal Lobe
3 Feb 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Earliest record of medical treatment for traumatic injury. Hinted at localization of function (lof)-diff parts of the brain might treatment of brain swelling after traumatic brain injury serve diff functions. Trephanation: cutting hole in skull to relieve pressure from brain. Why: suggested that this was done for medicinal reasons, attempting to treat brain trauma, psychiatric illnesses. Africa: protect from demons in after life, seizures in kenya (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Craniotomy: removing piece of skull to access some part of the brain. To address intracranial pressure due to blood or fluid build up. To access aneurysms and prevent further increase in size. To remove intraparenchmal (within brain) or extraparenchmyal (between brain and skull) tumours. To access brain parenchyma for surgical procedure, such as ablation. Called apoplexy ~400bc struck down by violence . 1600s: apoplexy: bleeding in brain or a major blood vessel blocked up.
