The Accidents That Explained the Brain | Science History for Sleep

The Accidents That Explained the Brain | Science History for Sleep Listen on Spotify : https://open.spotify.com/show/033XyFj... The brain gave up almost none of its secrets to careful study. Nearly everything we know about which region does what was learned when something went badly wrong for someone. This long-form history of science documentary follows those cases: the Vermont railway foreman Phineas Gage in 1848, the Paris patient known as Tan whose loss of speech led Paul Broca to localise language in 1861, Carl Wernicke's later work on comprehension, and the patient whose surgery in 1953 revealed how memories are formed and where. It looks at how much of neuroscience rests on a small number of individuals, and what we owe them. Calm narration, steady pacing, no sudden volume changes. Made for quiet nighttime listening and for falling asleep to. Subscribe if you'd like more history of science at bedtime. #ScienceHistory #Neuroscience #HistoryOfMedicine #SleepDocumentary #ScienceForSleep #TheBrain #historydocumentary history of neuroscience, phineas gage, paul broca, wernicke area, patient hm memory, science history for sleep, sleep documentary, how the brain was mapped, brain localisation history, history of medicine, neuroscience documentary, calm science narration, bedtime science, relaxing history documentary, long science documentary, brain science for sleep, medical history documentary, science for sleep, language and the brain, history of psychology