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A history of cerebral localization
P Benjamin Kerr1, Anthony J Caputy, Norman H Horwitz
1Department of Neurological Surgery, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. pbkerr@gwu.edu
Neurosurgical Focus
|April 23, 2005
Abstract:
The brain has been known to be the center of voluntary movement, sensation, and intelligence for centuries. Nevertheless, it was not until the latter third of the 19th century that the functions of its different areas were discovered. It was the labor of several key men that made possible the accurate localization and, furthermore, the resection of brain neoplasms.