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ral convolution […] is the centre of the sound images, the l esion localisation. Nevertheless, the Dejerines’ model was f ibrae propriae, radially converging in the insula, form the regarded as localisationistic which was amongst others re- psychic reflex arc. (p. 18–19) Wernicke at first did not relate lated to the perception of Joseph Jules Dejerine as chair of his f ibrae propriae to the (superior longitudinal fasciculus/) the clinic for diseases of the nervous system, and his remain- arcuate fasciculus (SLF/AF) described previously by Frie- ing scientific work including his publications about alexia drich Burdach (1776–1847) and Johann Christian Reil without agraphia which was one of the classical disconnec- (1759–1813). Wernicke wrote, “that to his knowledge, the tion syndromes with a defined lesion localization [7]. Lan- fibrae propriae had not been described elsewhere, but pro- guage models were categorised as either localisationistic (in- vide m ajor evidence for the relevance of the first primitive cluding associationistic models), or holistic, based on convolution, converge radially into the insula, thereby giv- whether they focused on language processing as being lo- ing the insula the impression of a functional centre (p. 17).” cally specialised (without/with inter connected brain re- Wernicke was not to correct his view until 1908 that the gions) or less tightly allocated to distinct brain regions, re- idea of a psychic reflex arc and assumedly the fibrae propriae spectively. Pierre Marie, who would later be a forerunner of c orresponded to the AF [7, 8]. The high degree of connectiv- holistic psychology, turned away from the so-called localisa- ity of the perisylvian region and particularly of the claus- tionalists, or diagram makers, who, a ccording to his opinion, trum appeared as a good anatomical prerequisite for the did not correctly interpret anatomopathologial data. He re- l ocalisation of language to Wernicke, who explicitly adapted garded even his former s upervisor, Paul Broca, who had the idea of the perisylvian region (the claustrum was be- identified the left frontal lobe as a faculty of language, as a lieved by Meynert to be the accustic cortex which is now localisationalist. The question, whether a cerebral localisa- known to reside in Heschl’s cortex in the superior temporal tion of higher, or in the broadest sense intellectual, brain gyrus) from Theodor von Meynert (1833–1892). The same functions existed and if so to what extent, formed the back- reasoning of the claustrum’s intense connectivity was used ground of the controversy about aphasia. This basic conflict 150 years later as a potential indicator for the site of con- affected European brain r esearch for the entire 19th century sciousness which is now believed (at least for viscero-so- and paved the way for trends in neuroscience for the 20th matic afferences) to reside in the anterior insula [9, 33]. century. Localisationistic thinking began with Franz Joseph Ludwig Lichtheim (1845–1928) was Professor of Medi- Gall’s phrenology, which assigned character traits to defined cine at Bern university hospital when he wrote his work brain regions that develop, form the skull, and can thus be “Über Aphasie” [10] that was built in particular on the recognised from the skull’s inner surface [5]. Paul Broca’s p ublications of Broca, Wernicke and Adolf Kussmaul (1822– publication in 1861 was the first to localise a clinical deficit 1902). To the author’s knowledge, Lichtheim was the first of convolutions in the brain [16, p. 141]. This publication who introduced a systematic analysis of language abilities heralded a scientific revolution and also created a dilemma. such as spontaneous speech, speech and writing compre- Until then, the cerebral cortex, with its convolutions, had hension, spontaneous writing, dictation writing, writing been reserved for higher brain functions, i.e., for all abilities copying, loud reading and speech repetition. He classified that distinguished man from animal. Broca’s publication language disorders into seven aphasias [10, pp. 220–37]. Li- linked brain convolutions with an ability that was regarded chtheim localised the causative lesions of his aphasias to as a motor function, thereby violating this dogma and, at the known n euroanatomical structures. His publication did not same time, opening the door for further anatomical and ex- mention own neuroanatomical studies. The famous perimental research. It was speculated that language was ei- Wernicke- Lichtheim model, valid far into the 20th century, ther a circumscribed pure motor function or that it indicated was generated when Wernicke adapted Lichtheim’s aphasia a higher, more complex intellectual function. It seemed bold classifi cation. Wernicke left Lichtheim’s functional attribu- to restrict the latter function to certain brain regions. Ac- tion to neuroanatomical sites essentially unchanged but cording to Young [16, p. 144], Broca would rather accept the modified the terminology of the aphasias [11]. dogma of being able to localise higher brain functions than to accept the idea that language could be represented in the human cerebral cortex as a motor, i.e., inferior, function. It Aphasia: a localisationistic versus holistic view was clear to Broca and his disciples that language was a fac- of higher brain functions ulty of its own within brain functions. The basic principles of this view were supported by Carl Wernicke’s work “Der “The third frontal convolution does not play any particular aphasische Symptomenkomplex” [6] and became generally role in language functions (‘la fonction du language’),” [12] accepted until the present time. By 1870, Fritsch and Hitzig in , in 1906, this dictum turned Pierre Marie into a showed experimentally what had been observed in principle maverick of aphasiology, which was then shaped by Joseph by Hughlings Jackson and others before i.e., that a dog’s tel- Jules Dejerine [13–15]. The Dejerines’ model of language encephalon could be locally excited and result in certain and aphasia, formed and published by Dejerine together motor actions [16, p. 7]. These experiments supported the with his wife Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke between 1895 and idea that at least simple functions of the brain could be local- 1902, consisted of an intricate network of cortical language ised. Pierre Marie had to insist that Wernicke’s aphasia was centres and association fibres in the left hemisphere [7]. accompanied by impaired intelligence because Marie denied Language arose as a network function. Aphasia arose from defined cortical centres of speech, and hence also a distur- any lesion within the language zone and hampered all bance of inner language, as Joseph Jules Dejerine d escribed l anguage modes to a variable degree, dependent on the it. In contrast, Joseph Jules Dejerine was not a r igorous lo-

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calisationalist, particularly not in his aphasia r esearch. He r easons, why von Monakow was perceived as a holist while had already employed the concept of functional systems, of- Joseph Jules Dejerine was perceived as a localisationalist. ten using the terms zone or region rather than a name of a In summary, the localisationistic, along with the holistic circumscribed brain region [17, 18]. view, of brain functions, in general, prevailed into the The deployment of individual models of language and 21st century, developing into established fields of neurology, aphasia was of course not strictly sequential, but partially neuroradiology and neurosurgery on the one hand, as well overlapping and coincidental. An interesting overview over as psychology and psychiatry on the other hand. the metamorphose of the language zone from Franz Joseph Gall to Wilder Penfield (1891–1976) is given elsewhere [19, p. 297 ff]. The Paris congress in 1908 marked a climax in the Linguistic, neo-associationistic, neuropsychological controversy regarding localisationistic and holistic models. and clinico-radiological aspects of language and At that time, several questions could not be explained with aphasia the then existing models, including that of the Dejerines. For example, the existing models could not explain why injury The original report by Norman Geschwind, founder of the to anatomically distinct language regions could give rise to neo-associationist school, is very instructive for understand- apparently unpredictable and overlapping symptoms. Be- ing the course of the history of language research [25]. He cause of these issues, the existing models were progressively wrote that the time between the world wars lead to a loss replaced by more non-localisationistic or holistic ones [12, of interest in localisationistic and association models includ- 20–23]. E xamples for holistically perceived models include ing disconnection syndromes. The critique by holistically the one by Sigmund Freud [20]. Freud criticized the oriented neurologists such as Henry Head (1861–1940), Wernicke- Lichtheim scheme (p. 10) and the concept of in- Pierre Marie, von Monakow, and Kurt Goldstein (1878– ner language (p. 20). He rejected the classification into cor- 1965) contributed heavily to this loss of interest. The rise of tical and conduction aphasia (p. 19) and the explanation holistic psychology under the Gestalt-School and Karl Lash- that the variety of aphasias can be explained by different lo- ley (1890–1958), as well as the rapid development of holis- calisations of d estructive lesions (p. 20, 31). Instead, he ac- tic psychiatry schools also played a role. The retreat of Jo- cepted the e xistence of a continuous, left hemispheric cortex seph Jules Dejerine and Hugo Liepmann (1863–1925), Wer- area as a language zone. Freud added to the lesion hypothe- nicke’s student and the first to describe apraxia (one of the 4 sis a t heory of functional impairment of language centres, in classical disconnection syndromes namely conduction apha- which he referred to the grading scheme from normal neu- sia, apraxia, agnosia, and alexia without agraphia), from the ronal e xcitability to non-excitability by Henry Charlton Bas- active scene deprived the classic school of some of its biggest tian (1837–1915). Freud proposed that the assumption of a protagonists. When the publications about the missing im- loss of language function by destructive lesions in certain pact of corpus callosum transection on neurological function centres or trajectories is invalid for particular forms of apha- in epileptic patients appeared (Akelaitis AJ 1941–45, refer- sia i ncluding transcortical motor aphasia. Instead, certain enced in [25]), most neurologists, at least in the USA and in language deficits can be better explained by a graded change Great Britain were willing to reject the classical teachings in function of language centres that are partially lesioned about the importance of the commissural and interhemi- but not fully d estroyed (p. 45). He also accepted the concept spherical association pathways. The tide of interest in the of a more topical, i.e., selective impairment of certain lan- callosum turned, when it was shown, in 1953, that an ani- guage functions by lesions at the language zone’s boundary, mal with transcallosal resection showed dramatic behav- while all language functions were affected to a different ex- ioural changes, if studied carefully (Myers RE, Sperry RW tent by l esions in the language zone’s centre [20, p. 106]. 1953, referenced in [25]). This led Geschwind and cowork- Another holistically perceived model was the one by Con- ers to reexamine the old literature and reassess their patients stantin von Monakow (1853–1930), first Swiss chair for an- for deficits of higher cognitive functions. In 1961–62, they atomical s ubjects of the brain and neurological polyclinic could publish cases with alexia without agraphia (as did Jo- (“hirnanatomische Fächer und Nervenpolylinik”), co- seph Jules Dejerine) which could be attributed to involve- founder of the Swiss Society of Neurology, and founder of ment/lesion of the corpus callosum [25, pp. 239–41]. the Swiss A rchives for Neurology and Psychiatry. His model Geschwind’s lessons from his studies were reported else- encompassed a lefthemispheric language zone whose exten- where in detail [e.g., 26]. In summary, one l esson was the sion was very similar to the Dejerines’ model [21, 24]. Von reappraisal, application, and interpretation of the rule of M onakow however added his concepts of diaschisis and Flechsig. This rule says that primary receptive areas do not (neuronal) plasticity to better explain the temporal course of have direct neocortical interconnections except to neigh- language disorders: the recovery of language after brain bouring association areas. According to Geschwind, a lesion i njury or stroke may be explained by the reactivation of cor- causing a disconnection syndrome can either be located in tical long-range efforts (diaschisis) outside the left hemi- a cortical association area or in the white matter leading spheric language zone and the right hemisphere. An im- away from the association cortex (pp. 242–4). Another of proved utilisation of existing left- and right hemispheric Geschwind’s lessons was that the inferior parietal gyrus and t rajectories outside the proper language zone together with particularly the angular gyrus has an outstanding role for the creation of new connections with the left hemispheric language. According to Geschwind, this region (Brodmann language centres (plasticity) may add to language recovery, areas 39, 40) appears so well developed in man that it can as well. These convictions, and other issues [7], were the almost be regarded as a new anatomical structure. It

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