History of psychiatry
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History of psychiatry is the study of the history of and changes in psychiatry, a medical specialty which diagnoses, prevents and treats mental disorders.
psychiatric medication and an ECT machine, in Berlin Museum of medical history
Dr. Philippe Pinel at the Salpêtrière, 1795 by Tony Robert-Fleury. Pinel ordering the removal of chains from patients at the Paris Asylum for insane women.
The York Retreat (c.1796) was built by William Tuke, a pioneer of moral treatment for the insane.
Lord Shaftesbury, a vigorous campaigner for the reform of lunacy law in England, and the Head of the Lunacy Commission for 40 years.
History of neuroscience
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From the ancient Egyptian mummifications to 18th-century scientific research on "globules" and neurons, there is evidence of neuroscience practice throughout the early periods of history. The early ci
One of Leonardo da Vinci's sketches of the human skull
Brain of a chimp preserved at Science Museum, London
3-D sensory and motor homunculus models at the Natural History Museum, London
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