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ArticleTitle	Neuropsychological-historical contexts of the contributions by P. Broca and J.H. Jackson to aphasiology in cradle -On the occasion of 150 years after the autopsied case-report by P. Broca (1861) and 100 years after J. Hughlings Jackson's death (1911)
Language	J
AuthorList	Toshihiko Hamanaka
Affiliation	Shiseikai-Yagoto Hospital
Publication	Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 27 (4), 276-286, 2011
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Abstract	On the occasion of this year (2011) marking 150 years after the first autopsied case report of "aphémie" by Paul Broca (1861) as well as 100 years after the death (1911) of John Hughlings Jackson, the historical backgrounds of Broca's idea concerning the "seat of articulated language" (Gall, Bouillaud) are examined, by means of a series of original documents and modern researches, together with the developments of aphasiological symptomatology and the concept of cerebral laterality (Lordat, M. & G. Dax, Auburtin, Trousseau's "aphasie"). The impacts of Broca's theory upon English aphasiology in cradle as well are described, taking into consideration the contrasting views proposed by Broca and Jackson (impaired "intellectual language") at the Nowrich meeting (1868), both of which surely suggests seminal descriptions of later "sensory aphasia" by Wernicke (1874), whose classical localizationist-associationist views too having been anticipated by C. Bastian (1869).
Keywords	P. Broca, J.H. Jackson, aphemia, Wernicke's aphasia, cerebral localization in the early 19th century