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    HISTORY OF NEUROSCIENCE

    SEARCH FOR SEAT OF MIND


    Ancient
    WHAT IS THE SEAT OF COGNITION?

    • Trepanning done in South


    America over 10,000 years

    • To let the bad spirit out that


    tormented the brains
    SURGICAL PAPYRUS: 1600BC

    • 30 Clinical cases of head


    and surgical trauma
    • first known descriptions of
    cranial sutures, the external
    brain surface.
    ALCMAEON OF CROTON (500 BC)

    •Brain as the site of sensation


    BRAIN VS. HEART
    Hippocrates 460-377 BC,
    “Men ought to know that from the
    brain and from the brain only arise
    our pleasures, joys, laughter and
    jests, as well as our sorrows, pains,
    grieves and tears”.

    Aristotle 384-322 B.C


    “the heart as the organ of thinking, of
    perception and feelings,”
    “brain could cool the passion of heart”

    387 B.C. - Plato teaches at


    Athens. Believes brain is seat of
    mental process
    HEROPHILUS - 335-280 BC
    Father of Anatomy
    Ventricles are seat of
    human intelligence
    VENTRICULAR PNEUMATIC DOCTRINE
    brain functions were
    carried out in the
    cerebral ventricles by
    animal spirit.
    GALEN 130-200 AD

    177 - Galen lecture On the Brain


    VENTRICLE THE SEAT OF MIND
    Soul could not be
    localized but mind
    could
    First ventricle the
    common sense
    Second - reason,
    thinking and wisdom
    Third - Memory

    Nemesius (circa 320),


    bishop of Emesa
    LEONARDO DA VINCI APRIL 15, 1452 - MAY
    2, 1519
    ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564 CE)
    WILLIAM GILBERT - 1600 ELECTRICITY
    GALILEO GALILEI 1564-1642
    DESCARTES 1596-1650

    1649 - Rene Descartes describes pineal as control center of


    body and mind
    SIR ISAAC NEWTON 1643-1727
    1664 - THOMAS WILLIS

    1664 - Publishes Cerebri anatome (in Latin)


    1681 - coins the term Neurology
    Reflex word was first used to described element act of NS
    Chemistry is the basis of human function not mechanical
    CEREBRI ANATOME - THOMAS WILLIS
    BIOELECTRICITY

    1791 - Luigi Galvani publishes work on electrical


    stimulation of frog nerves
    1809 - Luigi Rolando uses galvanic current to stimulate
    cortex
    1809 - LUIGI ROLANDO

    Conluded - cerebrum controlled voluntary body functions and the


    cerebellum controlled involuntary functions.
    1825 - JEAN-BAPTISTE BOUILLAUD
    Presents cases of loss of
    speech after frontal lesions
    from clinicopathological
    correlation.

    Frontal lobe and higher mental functions


    JOHN HUGHLINGS JACKSON (1835-

    •Clinicopathological correlation
    •Seizure origin from cortex not medulla due to electrical activity
    •Speech difficulty during seizure due to left post frontal injury
    HISTORICAL REVIEW OF MOTOR CONTROL
    Hughling Jackson 1858
    Three level of
    organization
    Spinal/brain stem
    Frontal
    Prefrontal
    CHARLES DARWIN 1808-1882
    DISCOVERY OF NEURON

    Ramony Cajal and Camillo Golgi 1906 Noble


    1906 - SIR CHARLES SCOTT SHERRINGTON
    1906- The Integrative
    Action of the Nervous
    system that describes
    the synapse and motor
    cortex
    Spinal reflex
    1932 Nobel Prize
    1957 - W. PENFIELD
    CORTICAL LOCALIZATION
    E

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