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Brain, Vol. 122, No. 11, 2013-2014, November 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

Editorial

Gradients of the brain

Albert Gjedde

Pathophysiology and Experimental Tomography, Aathus University Hospitals, Aarhus, Denmark

For centuries, the apparent symmetry of the hemispheres of the brain stimulated speculations about the duality of mind or gradients of function in the planes of the three dimensions: front-to-back (Gall, Broca), left-to-right (Dax) and top-to-bottom (Jackson). Front-to-back has lost its appeal and top-to-bottom is canonical (albeit still contentious), leaving left-to-right as the currently hot topic in the arena of human frontier science.

Legend has it that Gall chose the frontal (supraorbital) part of the brain as the seat of the language instinct because certain verbose students of his acquaintance had protruding eyes. If true, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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