article_snippet.sent: In 1861, French physician Paul Broca was introduced to Mr Leborgne.
article_snippet.sent: While Mr Leborgne comprehension and mental functioning remained relatively normal, Mr Leborgne progressively lost the ability to produce meaningful speech over a period of 20 years.
article_snippet.sent: Just a few days after meeting Dr Broca, Mr Leborgne passed away.
article_snippet.sent: French physician Paul Broca's autopsy determined tissue damage, or a 'lesion', in the frontal lobe of Mr Leborgne left brain hemisphere, just next to a brain fold called the lateral sulcus.
article_snippet.sent: Over the next two years, Dr Broca acquired brains from 12 more patients with Mr Leborgne symptoms –
article_snippet.sent: In collaboration with French scientists in 2007, a group at the University of California revisited the brains of Mr Leborgne and Mr Lelong (another of Dr Broca patients who could only speak five words) using MRI scans.
article_snippet.sent: It has been reported that Mr Leborgne suffered from epileptic seizures as a child –
article_snippet.sent: some have speculated that Mr Leborgne may have experienced head trauma during one such episode.
article_snippet.sent: Did Mr Leborgne sustain a blow to the head, suffer a stroke, or was Mr Leborgne simply a giant baby dropped by Mr Leborgne mother?