Neuroscience Exploring the Brain: Chapter 1 (Already A+ Graded)

trepanation correct answers a process that bores holes into skulls with the aim to cure Hippocrates (460-379 BCE) correct answers the father of western medicine; believed that the brain was not only involved in sensation but was also the seat of intelligence Aristotle (384-322 BCE) correct answers famous Greek philosopher; believe that the heart was the center of intellect and the brain was a radiator for cooling blood that was overheated by the seething heart Galen (130-200 CE) correct answers Greek physician and writer; thought that since the cerebellum is hard it commanded muscles and since the cerebrum is soft it received sensations cerebrum correct answers the from of the brain cerebellum correct answers back of the brain ventricles correct answers hollow space in the brain where there is fluid René Descartes () correct answers French mathematician and philosopher; believed in the fluid-mechanical theory of brain function where brain mechanisms control only human behavior that is like the behavior of beasts and human mental capabilities exist outside the brain in the mind, which is a spiritual entity that receives sensations and commends movement by communicating with the brain gyri correct answers bumps on the surface of the brain sulci fissures correct answers grooves on the surface of the brain lobes correct answers are the four divisions of the cerebral hemisphere which are divided by gyri and sulci fissures Luigi Galvani and Emil du Bois-Reymond (turn of the 19th century) correct answers showed that muscles can be caused to twitch when nerves are stimulated electrically and that the brain itself can generate electricity -- concept that the nerves are "wires" that conduct electrical signals to and from the brain nerve fibers correct answers think filaments that are within each nerve of the body where one of which can serve as an individual wire carrying information in a different direction Charles Bell (Scottish physician) and Francois Magendie (French physiologist) correct answers around 1810, Bell found out that the dorsal roots attached to the spinal cord controlled muscle movement and later Magendie found out that the dorsal roots carry sensory information into the