NROB60H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Trepanning, Neuropsychology
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Ancestors were trying to help and cure brain injuries, they had observations from other animals and connected the dots that humans had the same brain and attempted to treat it as such: modern neurosurgery: craniotomy/ ectomy, depressed skull fractures, icp monitoring/ treatment, subdural, biological basis of human experience/ behavior, cephalocentric believed the mind was the center, alcmaeon, hippocrates, plato, cardiocentric believed the heart was the center empedocles of acragas . Templar physicians: alcmaon of croto objectively dissected animals, established medical school (holistic approach), elemental theory of matter ( 4 parts, earth, air, fire, water) , hippocrates founder of modern medicine to do no harm brain hypothesis, contralateral organization where injur suffered from the right side of the brain effected the left side of the body he observed this through trial and error through pure observation, epilepsy.
