PSYB65H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hippocratic Oath, Scientific Method, Pineal Gland
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150504 lecture 01: an introduction to human neuropsychology. Psychology has a long past but only a short history: hermann ebbinghaus, outline of psychology (1902) The history of neuropsychology: based on recorded evidence and inferences, homo sapiens are observational, skulls with holes may have had injuries, trephination, surgical procedure, reasons: Brain swelling in the skull can be deadly. Holes would allow the person to get to some mystical destination: neolithic trephination. Callused skulls, the holes were created before the creature"s death. Antimordem (before they died) holes: modern neurosurgery. Heart races in good and bad situations (excitement, arousal: western civilization. We focus on western historians and their theories because they all followed each other"s ideas in a logical order: ancient egyptian, greek & roman thinkers. Nature and locus of the mind cardiocentric or cephalocentric. Advances in mathematics and philosophy: early greek medicine. Prior to 500 bce, medical practice was controlled by priests / templar physicians engaging in mystical practices.
