IsisCB Explore

Article ID: CBB000953426

The Role of Focal Epilepsy in the Development of Jacksonian Localization (2009)

Eadie, M. J. (Author)

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Volume: 18
Pages: 262--282

Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of a special issue on Cerebral Localization
Language: English

Outside Links

WorldCat

Google Scholar

JSTOR

Academia.edu

Brain localization Neurosciences Epilepsy 19th century Jackson, John Hughlings

In the 1860s John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911) reasoned on theoretical grounds that voluntary movements probably were represented in the human cerebral cortex. He then studied the clinical phenomenologies and pathological associations of human focal motor epileptic seizures, post-epileptic hemiplegia and aphasia, and also chorea. From these various lines of evidence he concluded by 1870 that voluntary movement of the face and upper limb on the opposite side were represented in a localized area of the human cerebral cortex overlying the corpus striatum. He recognized this shortly before the physiologists demonstrated such cortical localization of function in experimental animals. Over the following three decades, Jackson analyzed the spread of focal motor epileptic seizure activity, and the phenomenology of other types of epileptic seizure in humans, and related this knowledge to the sites of the brain pathology that appeared responsible for these events. This enabled him to locate cerebral cortical sites for the representation of foot movement, consciousness, and various aspects of special sensory function, as well as for certain psychic phenomena that arose from temporal lobe paroxysmal disturbance.

...More

Included in

Article York, George K.; Steinberg, David A. (2009) The Sydney Symposium on the History of Cerebral Localization: An Introduction. Journal of the History of the Neurosciences (p. 237). unapi

Citation URI

https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000953426/

Citations Indexes

Similar Citations

Article Plummer, Chris; Vellar, Ivo D.; Murphy, Michael A.; Cook, Mark J.; (2008)
“A Twist in the Tale” of a Surgeon and His Patient: An Australian First in Seizure Localization (/isis/citation/CBB000831385/)

Article Smith, C. U. M.; (2012)
Philosophy's Loss, Neurology's Gain: The Endeavor of John Hughlings-Jackson (/isis/citation/CBB001201292/)

Article Steinberg, David A.; (2009)
Cerebral Localization in the Nineteenth Century---The Birth of a Science and its Modern Consequences (/isis/citation/CBB000953425/)

Book Richard Leblanc; (2020)
Radical Treatment: Wilder Penfield's Life in Neuroscience (/isis/citation/CBB617044178/)

Article M. Chirimuuta; (2019)
Synthesis of contraries: Hughlings Jackson on sensory-motor representation in the brain (/isis/citation/CBB021785102/)

Article Eling, Paul; (2013)
The Study of Epilepsy in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century (/isis/citation/CBB001320614/)

Article M. Chirimuuta; (2017)
Hughlings Jackson and the “Doctrine of Concomitance”: Mind-Brain Theorising Between Metaphysics and the Clinic (/isis/citation/CBB608600329/)

Article Zina B. Ward; (2023)
Muscles or Movements? Representation in the Nascent Brain Sciences (/isis/citation/CBB741559709/)

Book Martin Raitiere; (2014)
The Complicity of Friends: How George Eliot, G. H. Lewes, and John Hughlings-Jackson Encoded Herbert Spencer’s Secret (/isis/citation/CBB623287771/)

Thesis Bassiri, Nima Rad; (2010)
Dislocations of the Brain: Subjectivity and Cerebral Topology from Descartes to Nineteenth-Century Neuroscience (/isis/citation/CBB001567167/)

Article J. Wayne Lazar; (2022)
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century brain maps relating to locations and constructions of brain functions (/isis/citation/CBB868101755/)

Book Stanley Finger; Paul Eling; (2019)
Franz Joseph Gall: Naturalist of the Mind, Visionary of the Brain (/isis/citation/CBB973892972/)

Article Domanski, Cezary W.; (2014)
Post Scriptum to the Biography of Monsieur Leborgne (/isis/citation/CBB001213877/)

Article Eling, Paul; Draaisma, Douwe; Conradi, Matthijs; (2011)
Gall's Visit to the Netherlands (/isis/citation/CBB001034913/)

Article Gross, Alan G.; (2008)
The Brains in Brain: The Coevolution of Localization and Its Images (/isis/citation/CBB000831407/)

Article Eling, Paul; (2008)
Cerebral Localization in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century: Emphasizing the Work of Aletta Jacobs (/isis/citation/CBB000831394/)

Article Josef Hlade; (2021)
Reconsidering “Brain mythology” (/isis/citation/CBB117316646/)

Article Mervyn J. Eadie; (2017)
Epilepsy, Ammon’s Horn Sclerosis, and Camille Bouchet (/isis/citation/CBB823141589/)

Article Kaitaro, Timo; (2001)
Biological and Epistemological Models of Localization in the Nineteenth Century: From Gall to Charcot (/isis/citation/CBB000300829/)

Article J. P. Gamboa; (2020)
Goltz against cerebral localization: Methodology and experimental practices (/isis/citation/CBB349569304/)

Comments

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}