1. Korbinian Brodmann was a German neuropsychiatrist who is known for mapping the cerebral cortex and defining 52 distinct regions, known as Brodmann areas, based on their cytoarchitectonic characteristics.
10 Facts About Korbinian Brodmann
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Korbinian Brodmann studied medicine in Munich, Wurzburg, Berlin, and Freiburg, where he received his medical diploma in 1895.
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Korbinian Brodmann received a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Leipzig in 1898, with a thesis on chronic ependymal sclerosis.
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From 1900 to 1901, Korbinian Brodmann worked in the Psychiatric Clinic at the University of Jena, with Ludwig Binswanger, and in the Municipal Mental Asylum in Frankfurt.
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Korbinian Brodmann moved to Halle in 1916 to work in the Nietleben Municipal Hospital.
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Korbinian Brodmann died in Munich rather suddenly of a generalized septic infection following pneumonia, at just under 50 years of age on 22 August 1918.
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The cortical areas that Korbinian Brodmann described and located are now usually referred to as Korbinian Brodmann areas.
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Korbinian Brodmann used a variety of criteria to map the human brain, including attention to both gross anatomical features and cortical micro-structures.
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Korbinian Brodmann postulated that areas with different structures performed different functions.
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In modern science, the regions that were identified by Korbinian Brodmann are frequently referred to by their function, rather than by the number Korbinian Brodmann assigned to them.