Albert the Great's interpretation of neuropsychiatric symptoms in the context of scholastic psychology and physiology |
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Authors: | Theiss P |
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Institution: | Department of Physiology, Freie Universit?t Berlin, Germany. |
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Abstract: | Albert the Great (ca. 1193-1280) serves as an example to show how the Latin West successfully integrated Greco-Arabian psychology with Galenic physiology. He divised a model of perceptive, cognitive and mnestic powers located in different areas of the "brain cells" and interacting with the immaterial and man-specific intellect. He managed to describe anmesis, epileptic seizures and psychotic states as results of disturbed brain fuction. Finally, further aspects of Scholastic theorizing on mental disorders are discussed. |
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