Phrenologist like Gall believed that the shape of bumps on the skull indicated differences in the function of the brain under that skull. While this has been discredited, there is evidence the impact to the skull and the resulting trauma of a concussion produces changes that are measurable. Explain whether this vindicates phrenology as a means to study brain dysfunction.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will address that Gall claimed the shape of the skull indicated brain functions, but impacts to the skull were not the basis for his work. Rather, an impact to the skull that produces a concussion is producing trauma in the soft tissue of the brain, not altering the bony skull. Phrenology was about hard shapes indicating function, trauma is about soft tissue being damaged and resulting in modifying function.
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