Franz Josef Gall (1 gen 1758 anni – 1 gen 1828 anni)

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Viennese Physician; Origin sicentist of Phrenology

-Was born into a Catholic family, but his theory about brain function was dubbed antireligious and the church refused a Catholic burial

-Proposed the first important theory of localization of brain function

-"Granddaddy of cortical localization"

"craniometry" = quantifiable study of the head

-Studies of head injury patients suggested a connection between specific would and specific personal deficits

-First to identify fibers connecting the cerebral hemisphere and confirm that some fibers crossed from one side of the brain to the opposite side of the spinal cord (contralateral function)

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