April 2023
Ablation Therapies in Neurosurgery
Peter Nakaji, Oliver Bozinov, Editors
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.