PSYCH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Tan-Tan, Frontal Lobe, Sideburns
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Highly respected scientist, believed to fair and unbiased. A patient, lebornge, with loss of speech was transferred to broca"s care >30 year old man lost the ability to speak, except for tan tan . >broca, wanting to test the gall/bouillaud hypothesis, performed an autopsy immediately. Anthropological society of paris: a fairly large lesion with a. Primitive onset in the middle part of the frontal lobe in the left. Jean-baptiste bouillaud (1825) argued explicitly for two types of speech deficits: articulatory and amnesic. Lordat (1843) made a similar distinction between verbal asynergy (articulatory) and verbal amnesia type disorders. Broca showed that language is localizable in cortex. Confirmed frontal involvement in the disorder, and. Further identified the critical role of the left hemisphere. (marc dax, studied a series of ~40 patients and had come to the same conclusions 30 years earlier (1836). Often credited with reporting the first case of sensory aphasia (not true, see previous slides)
