John Hughlings Jackson
(1835-1952)
John Hughlings Jackson was an English medical doctor who explored diseases in the brain (epilepsy) that destroyed various bodily functions.
Because the locations were in particular parts of the brain, he postulated that parts of the body were
represented in discrete parts of the nervous system.
In the 1869 journal
Transactions, printed in 1870, Hughlings Jackson "A study of convulsions," in which he described the physiology of focal epilepsy, and the localization that can result. Others noticed such localized functions in the brain, including ones controlling speech discovered in the left frontal lobe by Pierre Paul Broca in 1861 and another discovered in the left parietal lobe by German neurologist Carl Wernicke in 1874.
Hughlings Jackson was one of the founding editors of the journal
Brain in 1878.
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