Friday, 21 March 2008, CNR Seminar Room, 11:00, Monterotondo
Humours in the Age of Neuroscience
Noga Arikha, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris
Noga Arikha
The ability to investigate the brain's functions in detail is historically recent. Yet questions about the ways in which mental functions might be instantiated in the brain have been asked for centuries. How continuous are the neurotransmitters, hormones and proteins we study today with the humours, imagined substances that sustained medicine and psychology for 2500 years? And what can we learn about ourselves from the long era that preceded the establishment of modern science?
