Article ID: CBB000953427

Localization of Language Function in the Twentieth Century (2009)

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York, George K. (Author)


Journal of the History of the Neurosciences
Volume: 18
Pages: 283--290


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

In the twentieth century the method of identifying pathology in patients with aphasia has fluctuated between localizing and holistic theories. The practical localization of sensation and voluntary movement became a clinical commonplace in the beginning of the century, but the mental component of aphasia made its localization controversial. In Paris before the war, Pierre Marie made the localization of aphasia the centerpiece of his personal feud with Jules Dejerine. After the war Konstantin von Monakow used the phenomenon of recovery from aphasia to support his holistic views of localization. Henry Head, in a 1926 study that remains influential today, took a neo-Jacksonian approach to localization and the physiology of language. Kurt Goldstein led the postwar anti-localizationists, asserting that physicians must look after the whole person and that brain function was inherently unified. Norman Geschwind reflected 1960s physiological thought in analyzing aphasia as a type of disconnection of distinct functional areas. In the twenty-first century the localization of aphasia remains dependent on theory, with competition between holistic and localizing ideas.

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Authors & Contributors
Leblanc, Richard
Eling, Paul
Steinberg, David A.
Liao, S. Matthew
Hlade, Josef
York, George K.
Concepts
Neurosciences
Brain localization
Aphasia
Biographies
Brain
Neuroanatomy
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
Medieval
Ancient
20th century, early
Places
Netherlands
Germany
Middle and Near East
Glasgow (Scotland)
London (England)
Egypt
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