Ablation Therapies in Neurosurgery

The concept of localization of function in neurology and neurosurgery is owed to a series of early thinkers, including Gall, whose discredited theory of phrenology posited that bumps on the head had specific correlations and relations to brain functions. By the time of Broca, the concept that there was regionality in the brain was growing. Edwin Boldrey ’s description of the sensorimotor homunculus in his 1936 McGill master’s degree thesis (supervised by Wilder Penfield) firmly entrenched the idea of specific localization in the neurosurgical psyche.
Source: Neurosurgery Clinics of North America - Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Tags: Preface Source Type: research