History of Neuroscience

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Early theories of brain function

12,000 BC – 2000
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Between 12,000 BC and 2000 BC
Trepanation
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2700 BC
Imhotep
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1600 BC
Edwin Smith Papyrus
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Between 1000 BC and 771 BC
Zangfu
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Between 460 BC and 370 BC
Hippocrates
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Between 450 BC and 350 BC
Corpus Hippocraticum
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Between 429 BC and 348 BC
Plato
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Between 384 BC and 322 BC
Aristotle
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Between 335 BC and 250 BC
Hellenic neuroscientists
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Between 300 BC and 200 BC
Alexandrian School
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Charaka Samhita
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Between 130 and 200
Galen
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Between 980 and 1037
Avicenna
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Between 1515 and 1564
Andreas Vesalius
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Between 1596 and 1650
Descartes
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Between 1621 and 1675
Thomas Willis
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Between 1688 and 1772
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Between 1736 and 1822
Domenico Cotugno
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Between 1758 and 1828
Franz Joseph Gall
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Between 1770 and 1840
Jean-Cesar Legallois
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Between 1774 and 1855
Bell-Magendie Law
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Between 1776 and 1832
Johann Spurzheim
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Between 1794 and 1867
Marie Jean Pierre Flourens
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Between 1796 and 1881
Jean-Baptiste Bouillard
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Between 1823 and 1860
Phineas Gage
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Between 1824 and 1880
Pierre Paul Broca
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Between 1848 and 1905
Carl Wernicke
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