...Alberto Debernardi; Elena Sala; Giuseppe D'Aliberti; Giuseppe Talamonti; Antonia Francesca Franchini; Massimo Collice Above all, we highlight Alcmaeon's contributions to neuroscience and point out his visionary and prescient neurosurgical ideas about the brain; that is, if the brain is disturbed...

...The chapter surveys early Greek medicine, primarily the works attributed to Hippocrates, but also evidence for other medical writing, such as that in the Anonymus Londinensis papyrus, and in the fragments of the pre-Socratics. It is noted that the fragments of Alcmaeon indicate experience...

... degrees of legitimacy, from the original wording to its Platonizing or Stoicizing deformations, which remain all too often the framework of analysis in modern interpretations. Five case studies are considered: Thales, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, some Pythagoreans, and Alcmaeon. Stobaeus Aristotle Chrysippus...

...0 16 04 2008 Alcmaeon (450 BCE) is sometimes called the first neuroscientist. He is credited with developing the use of anatomical dissection as a tool of intellectual inquiry, and he is thought to be the first writer to champion the brain as the site of sensation and cognition (Gross, 1998...

... of the truth. A review of the relevant fragments and testimonia shows that Xenophanes, Alcmaeon, Heraclitus, and Parmenides—even Pythagoras and Empedocles—all moved some distance away from the older “god-oriented” view of knowledge toward a more secular and optimistic outlook. But to get some...

... the geometrical and philosophical approaches to sight. Alcmaeon colors Empedocles models of natural world optics physiology soul vision the sense Aristotle Democritus Galen Plato Ptolemy astronomer and mathematician Theophrastus of Eresos philosopher dissection Pythagoreans bronze Hippocrates...

... to have possessed supernatural qualities. This combination of characteristics has led to his portrayal as a controversial and elusive figure. In contrast, his early Pythagorean followers, such as the doctors Democedes and Alcmaeon, the Olympic victors Milon and Iccus, the botanist Menestor, the natural...