Broca Accomplishments

Broca’s area is the portion of the brain in charge of speech, language processing and comprehension, and controlling facial neurons. We know this, and much more concerning the Central Nervous System, thanks to Dr. Paul Pierre Broca who made these discoveries over one hundred and fifty years ago.
Pierre Paul Broca was born in 1824 to parents who initially would not allow Broca to pursue an academic career. However, with the immense success he gained while completing his studies, his mother agreed to permit him to pursue his passion in academics. After years of rigorous study and close workings with highly reputable doctors, in 1849, he was declared doctor of medicine and his accomplishments continued to pile up. A few of his accomplishments include
According to the National Aphasia Association, “Aphasia is an impairment of language, affecting the production or comprehension of speech and the ability to read or write.” The most frequent reason that brain injury, and thus aphasia, occurs is due to a stroke, head trauma, or brain tumors. Severity of damage can vary from inability to retrieve words, combine words, read, or multiple impairments of communication can be present. Over the past hundred years, different varieties of aphasia have been discovered. Global aphasia, Broca’s aphasia, mixed non-fluent aphasia, Wernicke’s aphasia, Anomic aphasia, and other mixtures of these are found to plague the left hemisphere of the brain. Broca’s aphasia is also known as “non-fluent aphasia” because of the struggle it is to produce speech. In the form of aphasia that occurs in Broca’s area, utterances of less than four words are common because of the extreme decline of speech output. As well, people affected by Broca’s aphasia’s have tremendous difficulty forming sounds and retrieving vocabulary. These sufferers have no trouble understanding speech or reading; however, writing is a definite problem