History of Neuroscience

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Modern localizationalism

Circa 1688 – 2000

People who believed that (brain) functions were distinctly localized across the nervous system.

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Between 1688 and 1772
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Between 1736 and 1822
Domenico Cotugno
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Between 1758 and 1828
Franz Joseph Gall
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Between 1770 and 1840
Jean-Cesar Legallois
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Between 1774 and 1855
Bell-Magendie Law
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Between 1776 and 1832
Johann Spurzheim
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Between 1794 and 1867
Marie Jean Pierre Flourens
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Between 1796 and 1881
Jean-Baptiste Bouillard
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Between 1823 and 1860
Phineas Gage
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Between 1824 and 1880
Pierre Paul Broca
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Between 1848 and 1905
Carl Wernicke
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