Ancient Civilizations
Meditation in Ancient India
Meditation has existed for a long time specially in ancient Indian civilization, where the first evidence found for the practice of meditation was from around more than 1500BC in religious books and art
Arabs and Anesthesia
The Arabic physicians gave a detailed description of the pharmacology of important narcotics such as opium, hyoscyamus and hashish . This is why Burton (1886) stated that “anesthetics have been used in surgery
A Treatment for Love Sickness?
Ibn-Sina recognized ‘physiological psychology’ in treating illnesses involving emotions. From the clinical perspective Ibn-Sina developed a system for associating changes in the pulse rate with inner feelings, which has been viewed as a
Mental Hospitals in Ancient Arab Civilizations
In the early part of the Ommyyad Is rule there were founded several asylums to cope with the mentally ill or deranged. The Arabs used to consider imbeciles and idiots as destitute persons
Mental Health Insights During Ancient Arab Civilization
The Arabic-Islamic world added much to earlier achievements in medicine. They fostered the flame of civilization, made it brighter and handed it over to Europe, which in turn passed it to the USA,
The Golden Age of Neuroscience – Ancient Arab Civilization
During the Dark Ages the medical flame was taken up by the Arabic-Islamic world. The period between the 7th and 13th centuries has been commonly neglected, despite the remarkable developments of biomedical science
Practicing Neurosurgery in Ancient Arab Civilization
Medicine in the Ancient Arab times was full practice including all of the medical aspects we have today regarding diagnosis, investigations and different kinds of treatments. Al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis) Was Considered the Father of
Neurology Discoveries in Ancient Arab Civilization
Scientists and physicians had many discoveries related the brain anatomy and neurological diseases which have been in that time. Avicenna discovered the cerebellar vermis which he named vermis and the caudate nucleus, which
Encephalocentrism Vs. Cardiocentrism
Division of ancient Greek thinkers into two schools, Encephalocentrism is the theory that the mind is in the brain, and cardiocentrism holds that the mind is in the heart. At the time that