History of Neuroscience

Learning objectives for this Part:

1. Describe the evidence that prehistoric peoples and indigenous Americans were aware of brain function.
2. Relate the development of ideas about the brain from the Ancient Egyptians to the European Renaissance.
3. Explain how 19th Century developments in an understanding of physiology, histology, and electricity led to advances in neuroscience.
4. Describe how studies of localization of function dominated neuroscience between the mid-1800s and mid-1900s.
5. Identify the imaging methods that revolutionized 20th Century neuroscience.