Chapter 1-History Of Physiology

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Johanne Muller

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1801-1857, German, Doctrine of Specific Nerve Energies-specialized nerves and areas of brain

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Luigi Galvani

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1737-1798, Italian, falsified Descartes’ model of human biology, invented battery

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Pierre Florens

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1774-1848, Frenchman, experimental ablation on dogs

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Herman vanHelmholtz

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1849, German, neurons in body are slower than electricity on copper wires

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Sir Charles Herrington

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1891, British, reflex arc, synapses slowed speed if neural transmissions, chemicals jumped the synapses

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Otto Loewi

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1921, German, neurotransmitter acetylcholine

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Paul Broca

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1861, Frenchman, first post-mord autopsy of human brain on “Tan”, Broca’s area-part of beak used to produce speech

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Aphasia

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Speech disorder

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Carl Wernike

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1860s, German, Wernike’s area-part of brain used to understand speech and make comprehensible speech

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Fritz and Hitzig

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1872, German, first complete electronic map of human brain

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Wilhelm Wundt

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1879, German, first psychologist, first psychology lab, published “Principles of Physiological Psyhology”