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BIRTH OF NEUROSCIENCE – THE AMAZING BRAIN

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BIRTH OF NEUROSCIENCE – THE AMAZING BRAIN Today’s scholars of the human brain and mind owe a great debt to Thomas Willis. Working in England in the middle of the 17th century, he meticulously observed and cataloged the anatomy of the human brain through dissection. Working in a medieval house at Oxford known as Beam…

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BRAIN OR SOUL – KNOWING ITSELF [ THE AMAZING BRAIN ]

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BRAIN OR SOUL – KNOWING ITSELF [ THE AMAZING BRAIN ] Descartes saw no physical soul in his tours of the body. Instead, he conceived the soul as noncorporeal and thus above the mechanics that animated all flesh. Operating within the machine but not part of it, the soul oversaw humanity’s consciousness, will, and all…

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MIND – BRAIN OR MIND – BODY PROBLEM

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MIND – BRAIN OR MIND – BODY PROBLEM Thus was born a conundrum that has sparked debate for many centuries. It’s called the mind-body or mind-brain problem. Attempts to solve the problem had to await the rebirth of the Renaissance. Direct observation and systematic testing of hypotheses provided the keys. The first direct, systematic observation…

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THE AMAZING BRAIN – BRAIN EXAMINATION BY GALEN

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THE AMAZING BRAIN – BRAIN EXAMINATION BY GALEN Centuries later, Galen, a Roman physician who lived in the eastern Mediterranean in the second century of the Christian era, went beyond such mental exercises to test the brain for himself. He took a more hands-on approach and cut the sensory and motor fibers in pigs’ brains…

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THE BRAIN – A PLATONIC VIEW ( human mind )

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THE BRAIN – A PLATONIC VIEW Aristotle’s teacher, Plato, reasoned that the mind had to exist inside the brain because of geometry and pure logic. The brain was round, he said, and close to the perfect roundness of the sphere. It also inhabited the part of the human body closest to heaven. The idea that…

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THE GREEKS AND THE BRAIN

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THE GREEKS AND THE BRAIN THE GREEKS were the first to begin to Recgnize the brain’s paramount status. About 2,500 years ago, a Pythagorean philosopher named ALCMAEON of Croton Favored the head over the heart as the home of sensory awareness. Consciousness arose in the brain, he said. ALCMAEON is reported to have peered into…

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THE ANCIENT BRAIN – THE AMAZING BRAIN

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THE ANCIENT BRAIN – THE AMAZING BRAIN More than 4,000 years ago, Egyptian priests considered the brain to be worthless. After a person’s death, the most important organs were often removed and preserved. Prized above all was the human heart, which the priests believed contained the soul and the mind. In preparing a body for…

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THE AMAZING BRAIN – KNOWING ITSELF

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THE AMAZING BRAIN – KNOWING ITSELF THE BRAIN should need no introduction. You should know it intimately. Afterwards all, the brain is what makes you you. But it’s a paradox that the organ that lets you know and connect with world understands so little about itself. Now, thanks to stunning research building upon decades-no, centuries-of investigation, science is peeling…