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2 unusual facts about Carl Wernicke


Carl Wernicke

His first name has long appeared in print in both the Karl and Carl spelling variants (see Charles).

Karl Kleist

(Chair of Neurology and Psychiatry held in succession by Theodor Ziehen, Carl Wernicke and Gabriel Anton)


Behavioral neurology

While descriptions of behavioral syndromes go back to the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, it was during the 19th century that behavioral neurology began to arise, first with the primitive localization theories of Franz Gall, followed in the mid 19th century by the first localizations in aphasias by Paul Broca and then Carl Wernicke.


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