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c. 50 – Aulus Cornelius Celsus died, leaving De Medicina, a medical encyclopedia; Book 3 covers mental diseases.The term insania, insanity, was first used by him. The methods of treatment included bleeding, frightening the patient, emetics, enemas, total darkness, and decoctions of poppy or henbane, and pleasant ones such as music therapy, travel, sport, reading aloud, and massage.
Archives of Scientific Psychology is an open access academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The journal publishes articles pertaining to the many different sub-fields of psychology, including neuroscience and political psychology . [ 3 ]
Many cultures throughout history have speculated on the nature of the mind, heart, soul, spirit, brain, etc. For instance, in Ancient Egypt, the Edwin Smith Papyrus contains an early description of the brain, and some speculations on its functions (described in a medical/surgical context) and the descriptions could be related to Imhotep who was the first Egyptian physician who anatomized and ...
The psychology of science is a branch of the studies of social science defined most simply as the study of scientific thought or behavior. It is a collection of studies of various topics. [1] [2] The thought of psychology has been around since the late 19th century.
1665: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: first peer reviewed scientific journal published. 1665: Robert Hooke: discovers the cell. 1668: Francesco Redi: disproved idea of spontaneous generation. 1669: Nicholas Steno: proposes that fossils are organic remains embedded in layers of sediment, basis of stratigraphy.
Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of human mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning. [1] Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviorism , which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of ...
Psychological Review is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers psychological theory.It was established by James Mark Baldwin (Princeton University) and James McKeen Cattell (Columbia University) in 1894 as a publication vehicle for psychologists not connected with the laboratory of G. Stanley Hall (Clark University), who often published in his American Journal of Psychology.
In 2012, NJ.com named him one of the 20 most impactful intellects in New Jersey. [4] He is the founding editor of the journal Social Neuroscience [5] and has published his work in Science [6] and Nature. [7] He discovered that the brain correlates of self-face recognition are mediated in the right hemisphere. [8]