The Brain- Questions



Brain Anatomy

1. Why did Aristotle think the heart was the seat of the soul?

2. Why did Hippocrates think the brain was the seat of the soul?

3. What is cranioscopy? How did Franz Gall come up with the idea of cranioscopy? What was the lasting value of cranioscopy?

4. Why did people think that genius was related to the size of the brain?

5. Why did people believe that genius was related to the convolutions and fissures?

6. What is body snatching? Why was it necessary? How did it stop? Did it stop?

7. After 75 years of studying brain anatomy, did biologists come any closer to the relation of brain anatomy to human nature?

8. After the death of President McKinley, what did Spitzka suggest was be important in understanding the criminal mind?

9. How was the speech function localized in the human brain?

10. What is proprioception? Where is it localized in the brain?

11. What are the functions of the right hemisphere and left hemisphere of the cortex?

12. Who is Jill Bolte Taylor? What did she learn from her stroke?

13. Where is the fight or flight response localized in the brain? How was it localized?

14. Who is Charles Whitman? Could the tumor in his hypothalamus explain his shooting spree? Are some of our bad behaviors out of our control?

15. How does the forebrain regulate the emotional brain?

16. How was Phineas Gage’s personality changed?

17. What is BOLD-fMRI? How does it work? Which functions is it used to localize?

18. Are we our nerve impulses?

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