The history of scientific neurology begins in the 6th century BCE in Ancient Greece. Alcmaeon of Croton, Diogenes of Apollonia, and Democritus can be argued to have been the first brain researchers [16]. The Hippocratic writings (corpus Hippocraticum) date from the 4th century BCE; in them, the Greek neúron (“stretched bowstring”) denotes ligaments, tendons, and nerves [21]. Hippocrates thought of the brain as a mere gland, but he already recognized its divisi…