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Article: Mapping the Brain Terrain.(Pierre Paul Broca, pioneer in brain research; France)(Brief Article)
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- Jack & Jill
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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Paris, France, 1841. Young Pierre Paul Broca, just seventeen and already entering medical school, creates something of a stir.
But it was nothing like the stir he created just twenty years later when he addressed the Parisian Anthropological Society on his discoveries in brain anatomy. He had found the part of the brain that controlled that most human of abilities: speech.
Aside from his pioneering role in brain research, Broca was known for bringing health care to the poor and for trying new techniques, like hypnotism. Kind-hearted by nature, it was said that he "never ...