History of Neuroscience

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Between 1621 and 1675
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Thomas Willis

Medical doctor, comparative anatomist and professor at Oxford

  • Wrote the influential anatomy book Cerebri Anatomae
  • Put forward the idea of localization of function in the brain
    • Memory is housed in the cortex, because humans have more folds and wounds to cerebral hemispheres would affect memory
    • Common sense is housed in striatum
  • Numbered cranial nerves