PSY 005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, Neurophysiology

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 005
• Professor: Sohai

Document Summary

History task 8: the brain: lobes and hemispheres, crevices and bumps. Idea s in ancien t civi liz ation s. Edwin smith papyrus = papyrus from ancient egypt that contained short descriptions of symptoms & treatment of different forms of brain injury showed that physicians made link between injuries to the brain and mental & behavioural consequences. Heart was seen as the seat of the soul. Hippocrates the soul is in the brain. Aristotle soul was in the heart; brain"s function is to balance heat of heart. Galen (130-200 ce) experimented on animals, dissected brains & published drawings. Soul is in solid parts of the brain pig stops squealing but keeps breathing after nerves in throat are severe voice comes from brain rather than from the heart. Soul communicates with body through animal spirits travel over nerves between ventricles in the brain & body.