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CS92PROD
History of the Brain
PSYC 326Z
Winter 2025
Section: 01  
This course may be repeated for credit.
Crosslisting: NS&B 326Z

The course is designed to trace the people, experiments, social forces and ideas that have helped shape the legacy of current neuroscientific knowledge. The course will be broken up into five parts: Part one will look at Ancient Egyptian, and Classical Greek and Roman conceptions of brain function. Part two will investigate methodological advances in the study of electricity and cell-staining techniques -- both developed in the 18th-19th century -- that paved the way for novel ways of looking at brain function and human behavior and how these new conceptualizations impacted the culture at large. Part three will investigate the history of assigning specific cognitive, emotional and behavioral function to specific structures in the brain. Part four will link developments in neuroscientific study with their impact (both positive and ill) on the treatment and care of people with psychiatric and neurological illness form the 19th-century to the present day. Part five will present a summing up and an overview of contemporary models of brain and mind.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS PSYC
Course Format: SeminarGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: None
Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available

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