Role of brain in history

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  1. 4. What Galen thought was the important part of the brain
  2. 7. Descartes' definition, a non-physical, spiritual entity.
  3. 9. The concept that different areas of the brain have different functions.
  4. 12. What Galen observed had changed after head injuries
  5. 13. A French Philosopher who first proposed the theory of Dualism in the seventeenth centaury
  6. 14. Descartes' definition; a physical, fleshy structure.
  7. 15. Where Empedocles argued perceptions were formed
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  1. 1. A German physician who first proposed the idea that personality characteristics and mental abilities were controlled by different parts on the outer surface of the brain.
  2. 2. Descartes' definition; where the mind and body come into contact and interact to produce sensations, thoughts, emotions, self-awareness and other conscious experiences.
  3. 3. Pharaoh who had 4 vital organs preserved in jars, while heart remained inside the body
  4. 5. There are two kinds of foundation: mental and body. This philosophy states that the mental can exist outside of the body, and the body cannot think.
  5. 6. credited as 'the father of anatomy'
  6. 7. The issue of whether our mind and body are distinct, separate entities or whether they are one and the same thing
  7. 8. credited as 'the father of medicine'
  8. 10. In phrenology, a mental ability, personality characteristic or behaviour
  9. 11. the study of the relationship between the skull's surface features and a person's personality and behavioural characteristics.