History Of The Brain And Nervous System

By Destan
  • 3000 BCE

    Strike To The Head

    30,000 years ago, the mind was discovered after a deadly hit to the head causing the first glimpse of the brain
  • 142

    Aristotle – Poking People’s organs (for Philosophy)

    Aristotle believed that the head/brain had no part in decision making or any importance to the body because according to him, poking the brain does nothing but the contrary occurs when poking at the heart.
  • 340

    Plato’s Tripartite Theory of the Soul

    Plato believed there were three main parts of the human body that mattered, the head for logical, theoretical thoughts, the heart for the spiritual and emotional and the stomach for desires and appetite