Neurologist Oliver Sacks detailed this mysterious condition in his book The Island of the Colorblind
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It was first described in 1902, and later named after the neurologists who initially investigated it, Joseph Babinski and Jean Nageotte.
The sign is named after Charles Edward Beevor, an English neurologist (1854–1908) who first described it.
Otto Ludwig Binswanger (1852–1929), Swiss neurologist and psychiatrist, uncle of Ludwig Binswanger
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.
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.
Hans Curschmann (1875–1950), German physician and neurologist remembered for Curschmann-Batten-Steinert syndrome
The human cortex was also stimulated electrically by neurosurgeons and neurologists such as Robert Bartholow (1831–1904) and Fedor Krause (1857–1937).
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.
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".
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 (April 3, 1851 - August 11, 1942) was a German balneologist and neurologist who was a native of Rietberg.
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.
Robert Gaupp (1870–1953), a German psychiatrist and neurologist
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 (Ratschach, June 20, 1844 – April 26, 1919) was an Austrian neurologist.
Heinrich Vogt (23 April 1875, Regensburg – 1936, Bad Pyrmont) was a German neurologist.
Hermann Nunberg (January 23, 1884 - May 20, 1970) was a psychoanalyst and neurologist born in Będzin, Poland.
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.
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.
Morton Prince, Frederick Peterson, and many others).
Dr. Israel Isidor Elyashev (1873–1924) was a Jewish neurologist and the first Yiddish literary critic.
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 MD (1926 – May 15, 2005) was an American neurologist and educator in neurology based at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
Jean-Athanase Sicard (1872–1929), a French neurologist and radiologist
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).
Dr. Kári Stefánsson, is an Icelandic neurologist, who is the President, Chairman, CEO and co-founder of deCODE Genetics.
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 (1927–1998) was a neurologist trained at the Romanian School of Neurology founded by Gheorghe Marinescu.
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.
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).
In July 1943, Jacob became director of criminology and he worked beside psychiatrist and neurologist Carl-Heinz Rodenberg, who came on as scientific director.
Ernst Remak (1849-1911), German neurologist, son of Robert Remak
Erwin Ringel (1921–1994), Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist who dedicated his life to suicide prevention
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 MB ChB MD FRCP (1911 - 1991) was a British neurologist and pioneer of Electroencephalography and neurology.
Roy R. Grinker, Sr. (1900 - 1990), American neurologist and psychiatrist
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.
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.
Adolph Strümpell (1853–1925), German neurologist who was born at Neu-Autz Estate, Courland Governorate
Luckily enough there is a neurologist and brain specialist at hand, Dr. Bruhling (Lawrence Grant).
Theodor Joseph Martin Kaes (November 7, 1852 – December 22, 1913) was a German neurologist who was a native of Amberg.
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.
The neurologist Oliver Sacks reports using the drug recreationally in the 1960s.
William Kattwinkel (27 March 1866 in Kierspe, Westphalia - 21 January 1935 in Partenkirchen) was a German neurologist and paleontologist.
Hermann Zingerle (1870–1935), Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist