History
What were brain operations called 8,000 years ago?
Trephinings
Technique used to examine brain and behavior relationship
FMRI
What were the names of the two German Neurophysiologists who used electric currents on humans?
Edward Hitzig and Eduard Fritch
What would the brain operations 8,000 years ago for?
The more we learn the more we realize...
How little we know
What was Broca recognized for?
Cortical localization- speech and cortex left frontal lobe
What would they call the things they removed from people heads during brain operations?
Stones of madness
What exactly does an FMRI do?
It is a device that provides images of blood flow or other metabolic changes in an intact, functioning brain in a conscious human subject.
Who is Charles Bell?
Found that spinal cord was made up of 2 kinds of nerves in the dorsal portion of the cord and motor nerves in the ventral part of the cord.
What was the name of the painting in 1490 of a physician removing something from a mans head?
The Extraction of Stone Madness
In the 19th century neuroscientists already knew there were difference areas of the brain, marked by differences in what 4 characteristics?
Tissue structure, texture, density, and discoveries of cellular composition.
Who were the two main scientists discussed in the psychophysics section?
Ernest Weber and Fechner
The 3 milestones during the Renaissance
BONUS: and the meaning behind all 3.
1. Discovery of cerebrospinal fluid
2. Difference between white & grey matter
3. The image on the retina was inverted
1. Cortical Localization of function
2. Specificity of the nerves
3. Speed of nerve conduction
Who argued that firing impulses from basilar membrane would match the frequency of incoming sound? And what was theory called?
Ernest Ruthford
Frequency theory