Series · 1 Feb 2016Marx on the Beach 1/2- 39:57Cited for the localizationist delusions of positivist psychiatry.
Broca
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Who is this?Paul Pierre Broca (, also UK:, US:, French:; 28 June 1824 – 9 July 1880) was a French physician, anatomist and anthropologist. He is best known for his research on Broca's area, a region of the frontal lobe that is named after him. Broca's area is involved with language. His work revealed that the brains of patients with aphasia contained lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region. This was the first anatomical proof of localization of brain function. […]
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Series · 1 Feb 2016Marx on the Beach 1/2
Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.4 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 39:47Broca's area, which pre-Freudian psychiatry observed.
Season 1 · 10 Dec 2015#1.6 Between crisis and war: Philosophising?- 1:33:40Cerebral localizations of aphasia, examination of the patient before Freud.