- Korbinian Brodmann
Korbinian Brodmann (
November 17 ,1868 -August 22 ,1918 ) was a Germanneurologist who became famous for his definition of thecerebral cortex into 52 distinct regions from their cytoarchitectonic (histological) characteristics. These areas are now usually referred to asBrodmann area s. Some of these areas were later associated to nervous functions, such as areas 41 and 42 in thetemporal lobe (related to hearing), areas 1, 2 and 3 in the postcentral gyrus of theparietal lobe (the somatosensory region), and the areas 17 and 18 in theoccipital lobe (the primary visual areas).Brodmann studied
medicine inMunich ,Würzburg ,Berlin andFreiburg , where he received his medical diploma in 1895. Subsequently he studied at the Medical School in theUniversity of Lausanne inSwitzerland , and then worked in the University Clinic in Munich. He got adoctor of medicine degree from theUniversity of Leipzig in 1898, with a thesis on chronicalependymal sclerosis . He worked also in the Psychiatric Clinic in theUniversity of Jena , withLudwig Binswanger , and in the Municipal Mental Asylum inFrankfurt , from 1900 to 1901. There, he metAlois Alzheimer , who was influential in his decision to pursue neuroscientific basic research.Following this, Brodmann started to work in 1901 with Cécile and
Oskar Vogt at the private institute "Neurobiologischen Zentralstation" in Berlin, and in 1902 in the Neurobiological Laboratory of theUniversity of Berlin . In 1915 he joined theKaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Hirnforschung (Institute for Brain Research).In 1909 he published his original research on cortical cytoarchitectonics in "Vergleichende Lokalisationslehre der Großhirnrinde in ihren Prinzipien dargestellt auf Grund des Zellenbaues" (Comparative Localization Studies in the Brain Cortex, its Fundamentals Represented on the Basis of its Cellular Architecture).
In the following years he worked at the
University of Tübingen , where he was habilitated and made a full professor in 1913, and from 1910 to 1916 as physician and chairman of the Anatomical Laboratory at the University Psychiatric Clinic. In 1916 he moved to Halle in order to work in the Nietleben Municipal Hospital. Finally, in 1918, he accepted an invitation from theUniversity of Munich to direct the group of histology at Psychiatric Research Center.He died in Munich rather suddenly of a generalized septic infection following a
pneumonia , barely under 50 years of age on August 22, 1918.Bibliography
Books
* Korbinian Brodmann, "Vergleichende Lokalisationslehre der Grosshirnrinde in ihren Prinzipien dargestellt auf Grund des Zellenbaues",
Johann Ambrosius Barth Verlag ,Leipzig , 1909.
* Korbinian Brodmann, "Brodmann's 'Localisation in the Cerebral Cortex"',Smith-Gordon ,London , UK, 1909/1994. ISBN 1-85463-028-8. English translation byLaurence Garey of the German book.Articles
* Cite journal
author = Korbinian Brodmann
title = Beiträge zur histologischen Lokalisation der Grosshirnrinde: dritte Mitteilung: Die Rindenfelder der niederen Affen
journal =Journal für Psychologie und Neurologie
volume = 4
pages = 177–226
year = 1905
* Cite journal
author = Korbinian Brodmann
title = Neue ergebnisse uber die vergleichende histologische localisation der grosshirmrinde mit besonderer Berucksichtigung des Stirnhirns
journal =Anatomischer Anzeiger
year = 1912
volume = Supplement 41
pages = 157–216External links
* [http://www.korbinian-brodmann.de/english/brodmann.html Korbinian Brodmann (1868-1918)] , Laurence Garey
* [http://http://www.musoptin.com/zeiss_52496.html microscope for brain sections from the University of Tübingen (1911), attributed to Korbinian Brodmann's work] (German language)
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/1264.html Korbinian Brodmann] . WhoNamedIt.
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