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1. French neurologist that collected patient's brains to study the region
involved with language and communication problems: Paul Broca
2. German neurologist that studied patients with difficulty understanding the
meaning of words, and putting words together: Karl Wernicke
3. Canadian neurologist that mapped out the parts of the brain and their
function during brain surgeries while the patients were awake: Wilder
Penfield
4. Neurologist that claimed multiple brain areas are essential for complex
functions (perception, action, language): John Hughlings Jackson
5. Spanish neurologist that used golgi stain to identify that the brain is
composed of individual neurons rather than a continuous network of
neurons: Santiago Ramon y Cajal
, 6. English physiologist that determined nerve cells are linked by specific
connections called synapses: Charles Sherrington
7. Advances in technology for neuroscience and when they came about: 1950s:
electron microscope (examine components of individual cells, including
synapses, and micro electrodes (examine electrical activity of ind. neuron)
8. Benefits of modern imaging techniques: Allows visualization of brain in a
living person and can provide info about physiological and pathological
conditions of the nervous system
9. CAT scan abbreviation meaning: Computerized axial tomography
10. CAT scan function: X-ray of brain analyzed by a computer that generates
an image based on the density of the tissue
11. Color of dense structures (bone) on a CAT scan: White
12. Color of less dense structures (fluid) on a CAT scan: Black
13. Color of tissues with higher water on a CAT scan: Dark gray
14. Color of tissues with higher protein on a CAT scan: Light gray