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Between 12,000 BC and 2000 BC

Trepanation

2700 BC

Imhotep

1600 BC

Edwin Smith Papyrus

Between 1000 BC and 771 BC

Zangfu

Between 460 BC and 370 BC

Hippocrates

Between 450 BC and 350 BC

Corpus Hippocraticum

Between 429 BC and 348 BC

Plato

Between 384 BC and 322 BC

Aristotle

Between 335 BC and 250 BC

Hellenic neuroscientists

Between 300 BC and 200 BC

Alexandrian School

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Charaka Samhita

Between 130 and 200

Galen

Between 300 and 400

Cell Doctrine

Between 800 and 1300

Islamic thinkers

Between 873 and 1941

Hans Berger

Between 980 and 1037

Avicenna

Between 1452 and 1519

Da Vinci

Between 1515 and 1564

Andreas Vesalius

Between 1596 and 1650

Descartes

Between 1621 and 1675

Thomas Willis

Between 1688 and 1772

Emanuel Swedenborg

Between 1736 and 1822

Domenico Cotugno

Between 1758 and 1828

Franz Joseph Gall

Between 1770 and 1840

Jean-Cesar Legallois

Between 1773 and 1831

Luigi Rolando

Between 1774 and 1855

Bell-Magendie Law

Between 1776 and 1832

Johann Spurzheim

Between 1794 and 1867

Marie Jean Pierre Flourens

Between 1796 and 1881

Jean-Baptiste Bouillard

Between 1817 and 1894

Charles Brown-Séguard

Between 1823 and 1860

Phineas Gage

Between 1824 and 1880

Pierre Paul Broca

Between 1824 and 1924

David Ferrier

Between 1831 and 1904

Roberts Bartholow

Between 1834 and 1902

Friedrich Goltz

Between 1838 and 1927

Fritsch and Hitzig

Between 1842 and 1926

Richard Caton

Between 1843 and 1926

Camillo Golgi

Between 1848 and 1905

Carl Wernicke

Between 1852 and 1952

Charles Sherrington

Between 1852 and 1934

Santiago Ramon y Cajal

Between 1859 and 1925

Jacques Loeb

Between 1861 and 1940

Henry Head

Between 1868 and 1918

Korbinian Brodmann

Between 1890 and 1958

Carl Lashley

Between 1891 and 1976

Wilder Penfield

Circa 1912

Gestalt

Between 1959 and 1968

Sperry and Gazzaniga

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Early theories of brain function

Modern localizationalism

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