important people

intro to neuro

norman geshwind

father of behavioral neurology (think of the 3 A’s)

noam chomsky

believed that language is an innate neurological process. it is a natural process

pierre paul broca

identified aphasia

lesions on broca’s area (left frontal lobe) will cause issues with expressive language (broca’s aphasia)

carl wernicke

identified the auditory speech center in temporal lobe

sigmund freud

coined the term agnosia

joseph dejerine

identified mechanisms for reading disorders

hugo liepmann

identified apraxia

lee edward travis

started the beginnings of speech therapy

wilder g penfield

neural surgeon worked on cortical mapping