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Period: Jan 1, 1100 to Jan 1, 1500
Cease of Brain Studies!
The Catholic Church bans desecrations of the body, which includes dissection. Medicine men still practice, and brain surgery still takes place to remove the "stone of madness" from the mentally ill. -
Jan 1, 1510
Leonardo Da Vinci Draws the Brain
Da Vinci drew many drawings of human anatomy including the brain. -
Mar 19, 1543
First Neuroscience Textbook is Published
Andres Vesalius publishes "De humani corporis fabrica" (On the Workings of the Human Body)
one of the first known neuroscience textbooks. -
Brain is Powered By Animal Sprits
He claims that the nerves are filled with "animal spirits" that carry motor and sensory information to the ventricles of the brain much in the same way that hydraulic fluid travels through machines. -
The Bumps on a Person's Head Reveal their Personality
Gall states that the brain is composed of thirty-one personality organs, each with a specific mental function and each found at a specific location in the cerebral convolutions of the brain. -
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Psychology is Real!
Wundt is deeply interested in philosophy as well, and many of his students at the lab, known as the Institute for Experimental Psychology, are men who have studied philosophy at other German universities. At the Institute, students are taught a wide range of philosophic and psychologic subjects including the study of attention and sensory processes. -
Sigmund Freud Puts a Spin on Psychology
Id, Ego, and SuperegoIn it, Freud describes dreams as "the royal road" to the unconscious mind, where repressed desires and urges are played out nightly. -
The Lobotomy
Walter Freeman and the LobotomyWalter Freeman and George Watts perform the first lobotomies in the United States. -
Chemical Lobotomy
Chlorpromazine is classified as a low-potency typical antipsychotic and in the past was used in the treatment of both acute and chronic psychoses, including schizophrenia and the manic phase of bipolar disorder as well as amphetamine-induced psychoses. -
Prozac Goes on the Market
Prozac belongs to a class of antidepressants that work by enhancing the effects of the chemical neurotransmitter, serotonin. -
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Decade of the Brain
George W. Bush devlares the 90's the "Decade of the Brain". -
Deep Brain Stimulation
Deep Brain Stimulation Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a surgical treatment involving the implantation of a medical device called a brain pacemaker, which sends electrical impulses to specific parts of the brain.
