• Jay V. Pierre Paul Broca. (medscape.com)
  • The function of Broca's area was first identified when Pierre Paul Broca noticed that those who had suffered strokes or had other brain injuries affecting this particular region of the frontal lobe also had difficulty speaking. (iflscience.com)
  • Pierre Paul Broca then took this research further, using clinical evaluations of humans to see if specific mental functions could be localized to specific brain tissue, and he was very successful in his research. (theness.com)
  • In 1861, the physician Pierre-Paul Broca met a man who suffered from a puzzling condition - he could only say the word "Tan. (brainfacts.org)
  • In 1861, a French physician named Pierre-Paul Broca met a 51-year-old man who was lying on his deathbed in a hospital for the mentally ill. (brainfacts.org)
  • Paul Broca's early scientific works dealt with the histology of cartilage and bone , but he also studied the pathology of cancer , the treatment of aneurysms, and infant mortality. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Paul Broca's historic cases: high resolution MR imaging of the brains of Leborgne and Lelong. (medscape.com)
  • His scientific curiosity was guided by Paul Broca's quote that "the least questioned assumptions are often the most questionable ones. (legacyhealth.org)
  • Paul Broca's discoveries were an important, driving force behind the more general effort to relate complex behavior to particular parts of the cerebral cortex, which, significantly, produced the first brain maps. (huji.ac.il)
  • The first area is in the front of the brain and is called the inferior frontal gyrus, or Broca's area, identified in the mid-19th century by neurologist Paul Broca. (ascd.org)
  • SfN: As Broca and other physicians found more patients with these brain lesions, their speech deficits became known as Broca's Aphasia, and the affected region of the brain, Broca's Area. (brainfacts.org)
  • SfN: Broca was not the first physician to toy with the idea that different brain regions handle different functions, but Dronkers says his careful documentation of individuals with Broca's Aphasia provided the evidence that was needed to convince the skeptics. (brainfacts.org)
  • Leborgne died a few days after meeting Broca, but not before giving his permission for the hospital to perform an autopsy. (brainfacts.org)
  • In 1861, as Tan lay dying, the famous physician Paul Broca encountered the patient. (livescience.com)
  • Important evidence linking the brain to the mind comes from studies of accident victims with localized brain damage, dating back to the discovery by the French surgeon Paul Broca in 1861 that human speech is generally produced in the left hemisphere of the brain. (accelerating.org)
  • 19th-century neurologists like Paul Broca made foundational discoveries by studying patients with peculiar symptoms resulting from these common neurological insults. (scientificamerican.com)
  • In 19th century France, a physician by the name of Paul Broca divided the world's animals into two categories: the smellers and the non-smellers. (bushheritage.org.au)
  • In 1848, Broca became the Prosector, performing dissections for lectures of anatomy, at the University of Paris Medical School. (wikipedia.org)
  • Soon after its creation in 1848, Broca joined the Société de Biologie. (wikipedia.org)
  • In parallel with his medical career, in 1848, Broca founded a society of free-thinkers, sympathetic to Charles Darwin's theories. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1848, Broca founded a society of free-thinkers, sympathetic to Charles Darwin 's theories. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • In 1848, Broca became prosector of anatomy at the University of Paris Medical School, the youngest person ever appointed to the position. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Paul Pierre Broca (June 28, 1824 - July 9, 1880) was a French physician , anatomist , and anthropologist . (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • Broca noticed a lesion in a part of the brain tucked up behind the eyes. (livescience.com)
  • While examining Leborgne's brain, Broca discovered a mysterious lesion in the left frontal lobe and wondered whether this was the cause of Leborgne's speech deficit. (brainfacts.org)
  • After Lelong's death, Broca again found a lesion in the same region of the brain. (brainfacts.org)
  • In the meantime, Jules Cloquet (1839) and Paul Broca (1859) practiced surgery using hypnotic anaesthesia, and in 1882, Charcot resuscitated hypnosis at the psychiatric hospital in La Salpêtrière. (gestalt.lv)
  • The church's animosity toward him continued throughout his lifetime, resulting in numerous confrontations between Broca and the ecclesiastical authorities. (wikipedia.org)
  • Paul Broca was born on 28 June 1824 in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Bordeaux, France, the son of Jean Pierre "Benjamin" Broca, a medical practitioner and former surgeon in Napoleon's service, and Annette Thomas, a well-educated daughter of a Calvinist, Reformed Protestant, preacher. (wikipedia.org)
  • Paul Pierre Broca was born on June 28, 1824, in Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, Bordeaux, France , the son of Benjamin Broca, a medical practitioner and former surgeon in Napoleon 's service. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • The Marc Dax (1770-1837) Paul Broca (1824-1880) controversy over priority in science: Left hemisphere specificity for seat of articulate language and for lesions that cause aphemia. (springer.com)
  • As a researcher, Broca joined the Society Anatomique de Paris in 1847. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1853, Broca became professor agrégé, and was appointed surgeon of the hospital. (wikipedia.org)
  • As authors, if we're not surprising, entertaining, or provoking the Broca area of our readers' brains, we won't get through the filter to the prefrontal cortex, where readers take action. (christianwritersinstitute.com)
  • Determined he was right, and against a tsunami of criticism, in 1867 Squier approached Paul Broca to examine his Peruvian skull. (ancient-origins.net)
  • Fusar-Poli P, Politi P. Paul Eugen Bleuler and the birth of schizophrenia (1908). (medscape.com)
  • Near the end of his life, Paul Broca was elected a senator for life, a permanent position in the French senate. (wikipedia.org)
  • Its discoverer, Paul Broca, was one of the first researchers to argue for a direct connection between a concrete behavior-in this case, the use of language-and a specific cortical region. (huji.ac.il)
  • A few months later, Broca met another of the hospital's residents - Lazare Lelong - who experienced similar speech deficits. (brainfacts.org)
  • After two years with Gerdy, Broca became his assistant. (wikipedia.org)
  • During his first six years in the society, Broca was its most productive contributor. (wikipedia.org)
  • Paul 'Bear' Bryant would have been 69 years old at the time of death or 101 years old today. (answers.com)
  • Paul Bearer is 56 years old. (answers.com)
  • Huguenot Broca received basic education in the school in his hometown, earning a bachelor's degree at the age of 16. (wikipedia.org)
  • Broca received basic education in the school in his hometown, earning the diploma as Bachelier des letters at the age of 16. (newworldencyclopedia.org)