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Lytico-bodig disease

Neurologist Oliver Sacks detailed this mysterious condition in his book The Island of the Colorblind

Neurologist

Medical school provides a general medical education and grants students a Doctor of Medicine (MD), Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO), or Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS, MBChB) upon successful completion.


At First Sight

-- >14,000 words = short work, so the title should be in quotes, not italicized. --> in neurologist Oliver Sacks' book An Anthropologist on Mars and inspired by the true life story of Shirl Jennings.

Babinski–Nageotte syndrome

It was first described in 1902, and later named after the neurologists who initially investigated it, Joseph Babinski and Jean Nageotte.

Beevor's sign

The sign is named after Charles Edward Beevor, an English neurologist (1854–1908) who first described it.

Binswanger

Otto Ludwig Binswanger (1852–1929), Swiss neurologist and psychiatrist, uncle of Ludwig Binswanger

Conversion disorder

Formerly known as "hysteria", the disorder has arguably been known for millennia, though it came to greatest prominence at the end of the 19th century, when the neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, physician and personality theorist Sigmund Freud and psychiatrist Pierre Janet focused their studies on the subject.

Cosmetic pharmacology

Anjan Chatterjee, a neurologist at the University of Pennsylvania, has argued that western medicine stands on the brink of a neuro-enhancement revolution in which people will be able to improve their memory and attention through pharmacological means.

Curschmann

Hans Curschmann (1875–1950), German physician and neurologist remembered for Curschmann-Batten-Steinert syndrome

Electrical brain stimulation

The human cortex was also stimulated electrically by neurosurgeons and neurologists such as Robert Bartholow (1831–1904) and Fedor Krause (1857–1937).

Ernst Jansen Steur

The Netherlands was shocked on 4 January 2013 when the NOS evening news led with the story that Jansen Steur had found another job as a neurologist in the Klinik am Gesundbrunnen hospital in Heilbronn.

Fred Plum

Using the limited clinical tools available at the time, Plum developed guidelines to help determine how to best treat comatose patients, writing The Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma in 1966, together with his longtime research partner Dr. Jerome B. Posner, a work described by neurologist Marcus E. Raichle as having "put stupor and coma on the map as an important consideration in neurology".

Frenkel exercises

The exercises were developed by Heinrich Frenkel, a Swiss neurologist who, one day in 1887, while examining a patient with ataxia, observed the patient's poor performance of the finger-to-nose test.

Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus

Friedrich Christoph Pelizaeus (April 3, 1851 - August 11, 1942) was a German balneologist and neurologist who was a native of Rietberg.

Frigyes Karinthy

He describes this experience in his autobiographical novel, Journey Round my Skull, (Utazás a koponyám körül), originally published in 1939; a reissue appeared as a NYRB Classic in 2008 with an introduction by neurologist Oliver Sacks.

Gaupp

Robert Gaupp (1870–1953), a German psychiatrist and neurologist

Gordon Morgan Holmes

He introduced to England the painstaking physical examination of a neurologist and even outstripped Gowers in his systematic collection of clinical data and its correlation with anatomy and pathology.

Guido Werdnig

Guido Werdnig (Ratschach, June 20, 1844 – April 26, 1919) was an Austrian neurologist.

Heinrich Vogt

Heinrich Vogt (23 April 1875, Regensburg – 1936, Bad Pyrmont) was a German neurologist.

Hermann Nunberg

Hermann Nunberg (January 23, 1884 - May 20, 1970) was a psychoanalyst and neurologist born in Będzin, Poland.

History of psychosurgery

The 1940s was the decade when psychosurgery was most popular, largely due to the efforts of American neurologist Walter Freeman; its use has been declining since then.

History of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom

Transorbital leucotomy (transorbital lobotomy in the US) was a technique invented by Italian psychiatrist Amarro Fiamberti and taken up by American neurologist Walter Freeman, with whose name it is particularly associated.

Ira Van Gieson

Morton Prince, Frederick Peterson, and many others).

Israel Isidor Elyashev

Dr. Israel Isidor Elyashev (1873–1924) was a Jewish neurologist and the first Yiddish literary critic.

IWAS World Games

The Games were originally held in 1948 by neurologist Sir Ludwig Guttmann, who organized a sporting competition involving World War II veterans with spinal cord injuries at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital rehabilitation facility in Stoke Mandeville, England, taking place concurrently with the first post-war Summer Olympics in London.

James Q. Miller

James Q. Miller MD (1926 – May 15, 2005) was an American neurologist and educator in neurology based at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

Jean Sicard

Jean-Athanase Sicard (1872–1929), a French neurologist and radiologist

Jon Van Caneghem

Van Caneghem was raised on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States by his mother, an artist, and his stepfather, a neurologist at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Kári Stefánsson

Dr. Kári Stefánsson, is an Icelandic neurologist, who is the President, Chairman, CEO and co-founder of deCODE Genetics.

Kohnstamm's phenomenon

First described by German neurologist Oskar Kohnstamm (1871–1917) in 1915, Kohnstamm's phenomenon is a sustained involuntary contraction of a muscle after a prolonged voluntary contraction.

Mihai Ioan Botez

Mihai Ioan Botez (1927–1998) was a neurologist trained at the Romanian School of Neurology founded by Gheorghe Marinescu.

Mir Qazi

During the trial the defense introduced testimony from Dr. Richard Restak a neurologist and also a neuropsychiatrist, that Kasi was missing tissue from his frontal lobes, a congenital defect that made it hard for him to judge the consequence of his actions.

Railway spine

Germany's leading neurologist, Hermann Oppenheim, claimed that all railway spine symptoms were due to physical damage to the spine or brain, whereas French and British scholars, notably Jean-Martin Charcot and Herbert Page, insisted that some symptoms could be caused by hysteria (now known as conversion disorder).

Reich Central Office for the Combating of Homosexuality and Abortion

In July 1943, Jacob became director of criminology and he worked beside psychiatrist and neurologist Carl-Heinz Rodenberg, who came on as scientific director.

Remak

Ernst Remak (1849-1911), German neurologist, son of Robert Remak

Ringel

Erwin Ringel (1921–1994), Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist who dedicated his life to suicide prevention

Robarts Research Institute

The institute was founded in 1986, under the guidance of neurologist Dr. Henry Barnett, most famous for his work with Aspirin as a preventive therapy for heart attack and stroke.

Robert Roland Hughes

Robert Roland Hughes MB ChB MD FRCP (1911 - 1991) was a British neurologist and pioneer of Electroencephalography and neurology.

Roy Grinker

Roy R. Grinker, Sr. (1900 - 1990), American neurologist and psychiatrist

Shirl Jennings

The family contacted Dr. Oliver Sacks, a famous neurologist known for his book "Awakenings," who, along with other physicians, concluded that Shirl would need to relearn how to identify objects that he could feel and smell by using their visual cues.

Stereoblindness

British neurologist Oliver Sacks lost his stereoscopic vision in 2009 due to a malignant tumor in his right eye and now has no remaining vision in that eye.

Strümpell

Adolph Strümpell (1853–1925), German neurologist who was born at Neu-Autz Estate, Courland Governorate

The Living Ghost

Luckily enough there is a neurologist and brain specialist at hand, Dr. Bruhling (Lawrence Grant).

Theodor Kaes

Theodor Joseph Martin Kaes (November 7, 1852 – December 22, 1913) was a German neurologist who was a native of Amberg.

Thunderclap headache

The importance of severe headaches in the diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage has been known since the 1920s, when London neurologist Charles Symonds described the clinical syndrome.

Trihexyphenidyl

The neurologist Oliver Sacks reports using the drug recreationally in the 1960s.

Wilhelm Kattwinkel

William Kattwinkel (27 March 1866 in Kierspe, Westphalia - 21 January 1935 in Partenkirchen) was a German neurologist and paleontologist.

Zingerle

Hermann Zingerle (1870–1935), Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist


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