JM Glozman J Hist Neurosci 16:168-180, 2007. Author discusses neglected field of Russian contributions, many of which preceded German and French contemporaries. A few examples:
Tarnovsky (1867) proposed in an 80 page paper a comprehensive model for organizing aphasic syndromes. He ?pioneered the notion of separating "the localization of function from the localization of the defect." Kojevnikov (1874) preceded Wernicke in publishing "sensory aphasia" due to left temporal injury. Rodossky (1872)connected deficits of sound articulation and comprehension of speech, and "inner speech" and writing disorders. He also noted the emotional reaction of aphasics to their speech.
Contributions to the study of memory were made by Korsakoff (1890) related to medial temporal lobes by Bekhterev in 1907, 50 years before Scoville and Milner.
Lurian period drew on the reflexology of Bekhterev, and Freud. Luria and his mentor Vygotsky rejected the notion that Pavlovian ideas could explain complex processes such as speech, attention, planning. They based their neuropsychology on the principle that higher functions consist of factors that can be parsed, and that functions could not be localized so much as factors comprising the function?.
Astvatsaturov (MI, 1908) proposed in 1908 that amnesia for nouns in revealed after motor center disturbances while amnesia for verbs is due to Wernicke area lesions."
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