Turning Heads: The Vanderbilt Brain Institute Has Emerged as a Hub of Discovery as Neuroscience's Influence Expands
August 06, 2020
August 06, 2020
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Aug. 6 -- Vanderbilt University issued the following news:
The ancient Egyptians were the first to mention the brain in writing--preserved on a 2,700-year-old papyrus that details the symptoms of head injuries--but the importance of the organ escaped them. They believed it was the heart, not the head, that controlled human thought and emotion.
Today our knowledge of the brain has far eclipsed what our forebears knew only a few generations ago, neve . . .
The ancient Egyptians were the first to mention the brain in writing--preserved on a 2,700-year-old papyrus that details the symptoms of head injuries--but the importance of the organ escaped them. They believed it was the heart, not the head, that controlled human thought and emotion.
Today our knowledge of the brain has far eclipsed what our forebears knew only a few generations ago, neve . . .