Imagine That You Were a Doctor in "The Old Days

Essay

Imagine that you were a doctor in "the old days" (prior to the invention of the various in vivo techniques).First,list a number of cognitive problems that you could study (e.g. ,Korsakoff's syndrome,aphasia,apraxia,case studies like Phineas Gage),then describe how you would use postmortem studies in understanding these various cognitive problems.Include in your discussion the various behaviors of interest.Also,from a scientific standpoint how would you increase the confidence of your findings?