History of Nueropsychology

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Edwin Smith Papyrus

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Ancient Egyptian document: 1st to record the word "brain" and loss of speech

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Hippocrates

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Father of Med:

Brain = seat of sensation, thought, and the emotions

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Claudius Galen

(greek physician)

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Formal essays on Anatomy and Physiology

Blood carries “vital spirits.” The brain controls the body by releasing chemicals (hormones) into the blood.

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Andreas Vesalius

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Bought bodies from grave robbers and conducted dissections. (nervous system)

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Rene Descartes

(french philosopher-mathematician (louis)

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Speculated on the relationship b/w mind & brain

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Franz-Joseph Gall

(austrian physician)

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Taught the "science" of Phrenology: diff parts of the brain have diff functions

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Marie-Jean Pierre Flourens

(French Anatomist)

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Disagreed with Phrenology : not possible to localize brain function bc it was too complex

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Jean-Baptiste Bouillaud

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Motor aphasia:

speech has its own control center (front part)

in the brain bc people can lose speech w/o being paralyzed

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Marc Dax

(French Physician)

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Stroke: paralyzed right side of a right-handed person, suffered speech loss as well

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Pierre-Paul Broca

(French Physician)

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After Leborgne died in 1861, Broca found a large tumor in the left frontal lobe, now called Broca’s area

Aphemia: speech loss