A (Brief) History of Brain Sciences

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The cat is definitely the star of the video

Thank you so much for this! :) As a philosophy and now also neuroscience student and history of science enthusiast this has all I would've ask to be in a perfect video. Definitely buying your book soon.

Interesting topic! I'm really interested in multidisciplinary approaches to psychology - integrating neuroscience and biology to understand ourselves a bit more :) theres some really interesting research looking at the microbiome and how that may be linked to depression and anxiety

The difference between neuroscience and psychology looks analogous to the physics-chemistry divide. The analogy breaks at the mind/soul mystery.

Very interesting video! I did a whole playlist of videos on the history of Neuroscience but you guys summed it up in one video! PS: I'm really enjoying reading your book!

I live in a university town in Sweden and one way the students, and others, get “test subjects” is by offering money, if it concerns medical studies where the subject gets something extracted or injected to their body or if it’s something that the subject have to do over a longer period of time. Almost everyone else in other studies gets offered movie tickets, through cooperation with the university and the largest movie theatre chain in the country. Most who apply are still young people, most of them white. Unless the students, or other, actively search for other subjects, which takes more time.

It'd be sooo cool if you made a video on neurophilosophy and the different views on the consciousness debate (dualism, identity theories, idealism, mysterianism, even panpsychism). I know that that's kind of pushing the boundaries of your channel, but that's exactly the kind of content that the brain sciences need! When it comes to the hard problem of consciousness, collaboration between philosophy and science couldn't be more of a pressing issue. You tackling the topic would be perfect.

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I was just thinking about this topic recently. Great Work! But there was no mention of trepanation, the first surgical practice used since ancient times to treat traumatic brain injury, headaches, epilepsy, and mental disorders. The fact that trepanning was common in primitive society to treat behavioral disorders (spiritual possessions, as they called them) is evidence that people knew that somehow the brain was responsible for producing behavior. This practice was common since Neolithic times in Europe, Siberia, China, and the Americas. I know the history is a bit problematic since it gave rise to the practice of lobotomy, yet it is an important piece of history nonetheless.

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Every time I watch a video about the history of any study it makes me so sad to think of everything lost in the library of Alexandria.

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According to me, neuroscience is the hardware, and psychology is the software. Neither can function properly without the other