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Illustration by Andreas Vesalius
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one of the first known neuroscience textbooks. Lavishly illustrated, it contains major sections on the workings of the nerves and the brain. Vesalius also disputes the prevailing doctrine that the higher functions of the brain are situated in the ventricles. He has discovered in his dissection studies that the brains of many animals (and all mammals), have the same ventricles as humans. Since animals have no soul, he reasons, the ventricles must not be the key to higher brain functions such as emotion and memory.
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