When1: 1881
When2: 1887
Who: John Hughlings Jackson [Jackson, John Hughlings]
What: neurologist
Where: Britain
works\ Croonian Lectures on Evolution and Dissolution of the Nervous System [1881 to 1887]
Detail: He lived 1835 to 1911. He noted focal-epilepsy involuntary-movement sequences and deduced motor-cortex excitable-area spatial patterns. Patients can utter words or phrases under stress or during high emotion, though they cannot speak voluntarily.
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