Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ479343
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1994
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Historical Roots of the Field of Learning Disabilities: Some Nineteenth-Century German Contributions.
Opp, Gunther
Journal of Learning Disabilities, v27 n1 p10-19 Jan 1994
This article highlights the scientific contributions of nineteenth-century German researchers in describing neuropsychologic dysfunction and in conceptualizing and cerebrally localizing clinical syndromes associated with learning disabilities. Noted are contributions of Pierre Paul Broca, Carl Wernicke, Ludwig Lichtheim, Hugo Karl Liepmann, B. Berlin, Hubert Grashey, and J.K. Goldscheider. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, History, Learning Disabilities, Neurology, Neuropsychology, Scientific Research, Scientists
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Germany
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