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Louis Victor Leborgne ("Tan").

Nasser Mohammed¹, Vinayak Narayan¹, Devi Prasad Patra¹

¹Department of Neurosurgery, LSU-HSC, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA.

World Neurosurgery

|February 17, 2018

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The case of patient "Tan" (Louis Victor Leborgne) provided crucial insights into brain function. His unique speech deficit helped establish the concept of cerebral localization for language processing.

Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Neurology
History of Medicine

Background:

Louis Victor Leborgne, nicknamed "Tan," was a patient of neurologist Paul Broca.
Tan suffered from a severe speech impediment, able to utter only the word "Tan."
He spent a significant portion of his life in a hospital, eventually under Broca's care.

Keywords:

Broca area History Louis Victor Leborgne Paul Broca Tan