The Lesion Method: What Individual Patients Can Teach Us About the Brain

Scientists who study the brain try to understand how it performs everyday behaviors like language, memory, and emotion. learn a lot by studying these change when is damaged. Over past 200 years, they have made many discoveries individuals with damage. For example, one patient could not form sentences after damaging specific area of his brain. The scientist studied him concluded that damaged was important for producing speech. This approach called lesion method, has taught us about In this article, we introduce five patients throughout history forever changed our understanding We describe researchers use early ask new questions brain, conclude discussing method used today.