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HISTORY OF NEUROSCIENCE
Introduction to neuroscience
The Search for Consciousness and the Anatomical Basis of the Soul
Pre-History
10,00 years ago, early hominids.
Trepanation - making a therapeutic hole in the skull.
Ancient Egypt
5,00 years ago; aware of symptoms of brain damage.
Heart, not the brain was believed to be the storehouse of memories
and location of the soul
Ancient Greece Hippocrates (460-379 BC)
4th C.B.C.
Brain is the organ of sensation.
Hippocrates (460-379 BC)
Brain is the seat of intelligence. Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Heart is the center of intellect.
The brain serves to cool blood.
The Romans
Galen (130-200 AD)
A Greek, chief physician in Rome.
As physician to gladiators, saw spinal cord, & Brain injuries.
Dissected sheep to study brain
Tried to deduce functions:
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