Albert the Great's interpretation of neuropsychiatric symptoms in the context of scholastic psychology and physiology.
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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Department of Physiology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
D005060:Europe; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000266:history*; D010684:Philosophy / Q000266:history*; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history*; D011584:Psychology / Q000266:history*