History of Neuropsychology

Benton AR. Neuropsychology Past present and future

Old terms

psychoneurology Bekhterev

brain pathology Kleist

enteroid processes-- old term for gyri of brain till 1820'a



Nemesius-- sensation and perception in anterior ventricles, thinking and reasoning in third ventricle and memory in fourth v (400 AD).

Antonio Guanerio (15th century) - anomia is due to phlegm in fourth v.



Thomas Willis sensation is in corpus striatum , perceptual integration in callosum and memory is in cortex.

Peyronie-- callosum is seat of intellect

Jackson 1878-- to locate the lesions which destroys speech and to locate speech are two different things

Head 1926 =the processes which underlie an act of speech run through the nervous system like a prairie fire from bush to bush.



Brissaud 1897 compared aphasie d'intonation with aphasie d'articulation

Goldstein- related amnesic and conduction aphasia to "abstract attitude"

Kleist- differentiated speech sound deafness and speech meaning deafness (1923-4)



Teuber responsible for term neuropsychology using it in 1948.