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History of Neurology Review Articles
"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants" - Isaac Newton
Academic Year 2016 - 2017:
- 07.11.2016 - Charles Karsner Mills (1845-1930)
- Mills, Charles K. - The Nervous System and It's Diseases: A Practical Treatise on Neurology for the Use of Physicians and Students.
- Mills, Charles K. - A Case of Unilateral Progressive Ascending Paralysis, Probably Representing a New Form of Degenerative Disease
- Mills, Charles K. - Unilateral Ascending Paralysis and Unilateral Descending Paralysis
- 07.17.2016 - William Osler (1849-1919)
- Frank, Yitzchak. "William Osler." The Founders of Child Neurology. Ed. Stephen Ashwal. San Francisco, CA: Norman Pub. in Association with the Child Neurology Society, 1990. 325-335.
- Osler, W. "The Principles and Practices of Medicine." The Classics of Medicine Library, Division of Gryphon Editions, Ltd. Birmingham, AL. 1978.
- 07.25.2016 - Francis Xavier Dercum (1856-1931)
- 08.01.2016 - George Huntington (1850 - 1916)
- Huntington, G. "Recollections of Huntington's Chorea as I Saw it at East Hampton, Long Island, During My Boyhood." Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 1910. p. 255-257.
- Haymaker, W & Schiller, F. "George Huntington." Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 453-455.
- Huntington, G. "On Chorea." Neurological Classics. New York, NY: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1973. 3-5.
- Dr. Barohn's Slides here
- 08.15.2016 - Early Midwest Neurology - Part 1
- Dr. Barohn's slides here with additional material.
- Church, A. Diseases of the Nervous System. New York, NY: D. Appleton and Company, 1910.
- Church, A. Nervous and Mental Diseases. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Company, 1914.
- Hun, H. An Atlas of the Differential Diagnosis of the Diseases of the Nervous System. New York, NY: The Southworth Co. 1912.
- 08.22.2016 - Early New York Neurology - Part 1
- 08.29.2016 - Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906)
- 09.12.2016 - Early New York Neurology - Part 2
- Dr. Barohn's Slides here
- 09.19.2016 - Early Boston Neurology
- 10.03.2016 - G Milton Shy (1919 - 1967)
- 10.10.2016 - Early Midwest Neurology - Part 2
- 10.17.2016 - Early New York Neurology - Part 4
- 10.31.2013 - West Coast Neurology
- 11.28.2016 - Harvey Cushing (1869 - 1939) slides and handout 1, handout 2, handout 3, handout 4.
- 01.9.2017 - Walter Dandy slides (1886 - 1946) and handout
- 01.23.2017 - Wilder Penfield (1891 - 1976)
- 01.30.2017 - James Papez (1883 - 1958)
- 02.6.17 - William James (1842 - 1910)
- 02.10.17 - Guillaume-Benjamin Amand Duchenne, M.D.
- 02.13.17 - Walter Cannon (1871 - 1945)
- 02.20.17 - Joseph Erlanger, M.D. and Herbert Gasser, M.D.
- 02.24.17 - Karl Lashley, Ph.D. (1890 - 1958)
- 03.06.17 - B.F. Skinner, Ph.D. (1904 - 1990)
- 03.27.17 - EP Richardson, MD (1918 - 1998)
- 04.10.17 - David H. Hubel (1926 - 2013) and Torsten Wiesel (1924 - P)
- 05.01.17 - Roger Sperry (1913 - 1994)
- 05.08.17 - Stanley B. Prusiner (1942 - P)
- 05.22.17 - Eric Kandel (1929 - P)
- 06.05.17 - Linda Buck (1947 - P)
Academic Year 2015 - 2016:
- 07.06.2015 - Sir William Richard Gowers (1845 - 1915)
- Gowers, W. R. "Spinal Cord. Pseudo-Hypertrophic Muscular Paralysis." A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System. 2nd ed. Darien, Conn: Hafner, 1970. 505-515.
- Gowers, W. R. "Chronic Muscular Atrophy." A Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System. 2nd ed. Darien, Conn: Hafner, 1970. 471-499.
- Haymaker, Webb. "Sir William Richard Gowers." The Founders of Neurology. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1953. 292-295.
- 07.15.2015 - Sir John Jackson (1835 - 1911)
- 07.20.2015 - Thomas Snydenham (1624 - 1689)
- Frank, Yitzchak. "Founders Prior to 1800: Thomas Sydenham." The Founders of Child Neurology. Ed. Stephen Ashwal. San Francisco, CA: Norman Pub. in Association with the Child Neurology Society, 1990. 67-74.
- Wilkins, Robert H. and Brody, Irwin A. "Sydenham's Chorea." Neurological Classics. New York, NY: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1973. 85-86.
- 07.27.2015 - Edwards Hitzig (1838 - 1907)
- 08.10.2015 - Sir David Ferrier (1843 - 1928)
- 08.17.2015 - Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857 - 1952)
- Haymaker, Webb and Schiller, Francis. "Charles Scott Sherrington." The Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 267-272.
- Fulton, J. F., Brown, G. T., and Ritchie, A. D. "The Interactive Action of the Nervous System: Sir Charles Sherrington." The Classics of Neurology & Neurosurgery Library. Birmingham, AL: Gryphon Editions, Inc., 1986.
- 08.24.2015 - Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
- 08.31.2015 - Carl Wernicke (1848 - 1904)
- 09.07.2015 - Adolf Wallenberg (1862 - 1949)
- 11.09.2015 - Santiago Ramon y Cajal (1852 - 1934)
- Haymaker, Webb and Schiller, Francis. "Santiago Ramon Y Cajal." The Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 147-151.
- McHenry, L. C., Garrison, F. H., et. al. "Degeneration and Regeneration of the Nervous System: Ramon y Cajal." The Classics of Neurology & Neurosurgery Library. Birmingham, AL: Gryphon Editions, Inc., 1986.
- 11.23.2015 - Marshall Hall (1790 - 1857)
- Haymaker, Webb and Schiller, Francis. "Marshall Hall." The Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 221-225.
- Hale-White, William. "Marshall Hall." The Classics of Neurology & Neurosurgery Library. Reprinted from Great Doctors of the Nineteenth Century. Birmingham, AL: Gryphon Editions, Inc., 1989.
- 11.30.2015 - Arnold Pick (1851 - 1924)
- Haymaker, Webb and Schiller, Francis. "Arnold Pick." The Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 358-362.
- Pick, A. (1892). "On the Relation Between Aphasia and Senile Atrophy of the Brain." In Rottenberg, D., & Hochberg, F. (Eds) Neurological Classics in Modern Translation. New York, NY: Hafner Press. 1977. 35-40.
- 12.07.2015 - Claude Bernard (1813 - 1978)
- Haymaker, Webb and Schiller, Francis. "Claude Bernard." The Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 175-178.
- "An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine: Claude Bernard." Revised 1991 The Classics of Medicine Library. Birmingham, AL: Gryphon Editions, Inc., 1980.
- 12.28.2015 - Alois Alzheimer (1867 - 1915)
- Haymaker, Webb and Schiller, Francis. "Alois Alzheimer." The Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 315-319.
- Alzheimer, A. (1907). "A Unique Illness Involving the Cerebral Cortex." In Rottenberg, D., & Hochberg, F. (Eds) Neurological Classics in Modern Translation. New York, NY: Hafner Press. 1977.41-43.
- 01.04.2016 - Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov (1849 - 1936)
- Haymaker, W. & Schiller, F. "Ivan Pavlov." The Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 250-254.
- "Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes Twenty-Five Years of Objective Study of the Higher Nervous Activity Behaviour of Animals: Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov." The Classics of Medicine Library. Birmingham, AL: Gryphon Editions, Inc., 1992.
- Butler-Bowdon, Tom. "Ivan Pavlov." 50 Psychology Classics. New York, NY: MJF Books. 2007. 211-215.
- 01.11.2016 - Luigi Galvani (1737 - 1798)
- Finger, Stanley. "Luigi Galvani: Electricity and the Nerves." Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2000. 101-117.
- Cohen, Bernard. "Introduction." Printed for the first Galvani's commentary on effects of electricity on muscular motion, with notes and critical introduction by I. Bernard Cohen, Norwalk (Conn.), Burndy Library, 1953.
- Cohen, Bernard. "Part I: Effects of Artificial Electricity on Muscular Motion." Printed for the first Galvani's commentary on effects of electricity on muscular motion, with notes and critical introduction by I. Bernard Cohen, Norwalk (Conn.), Burndy Library, 1953.
- 02.01.2016 - 1st Baron, Edgar Adrian (1889 - 1977)
- 02.15.2016 - Sir Kinner Wilson (1878 - 1937)
- 02.22.2016 - Sir Gordon Holmes (1876 - 1965)
- 02.29.2016 - Sir Heny Head (1861 - 1940)
- 03.07.2016 - 1st Baron, Russell Brain (1895 - 1966)
- 03.14.2016 - Sirs. John Eccles, Alan L. Hodgkins, Andrew F. Huxley & Bernard Katz
- "Sir John Eccles - Biographical." Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 2 Mar 2016.
- Eccles, John C., Katz, Bernhard, and Kuffler, Stephen W. "Nature of the 'Endplate Potential' in Curarized Muscle." Journal of Neurophysiology. 1 Jul 1941. 4(5):362-387.
- Eccles, John. "The Ferrier Lecture: The Nature of Central Inhibition." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 28 Feb 1961. 153(953):445-476.
- "Alan L. Hodgkin - Biographical." Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 2 Mar 2016.
- Hodgkin, A.L. and Huxley, A.F. "Currents Carried by Sodium and Potassium Ions Through the Membrane of t he Giant Axon of Loligo." J. Physiol. 1952. 116:449-472.
- Hodgkin, A.L. "The Croonian Lecture: Ionic Movements and Electrial Activity in Giant Nerve Fibers." Proceedings of the Royal Society. Series B, Biological Sciences. 1 Jan 1958. 148(930): 1-37.
- "Andrew F. Huxley - Biographical." Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 2 Mar 2016.
- "Sir Bernard Katz - Biographical." Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 2 Mar 2016.
- Katz, B. "The Croonian Lecture: The Transmission of Impulses From Nerve to Muscle, and the Subcellular Unit of Synaptic Action." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 10 Apr 1962. 155(961):455-477.
- 03.28.2016 - Sir Henry Hallett Dale (1875 - 1968)
- "Henry Hallett Dale." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Mar 2016. Web. 12 May 2016.
- Haymaker, Webb and Schiller, Francis. "Henry Dale." Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 282-285.
- Dale, H.H., Feldberg, W., and Vogt, M. "Release of Acetylcholine at Voluntary Motor Nerve Endings." J Physiol. 1936 May 4; 86(4): 353-380.
- Finger, Stanley. "Otto Loewi and Henry Dale: The Discovery of Neurotransmitters." Minds Behind the Brain. A History of the Pioneers and Their Discoveries. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. 2000. 259-279.
- 04.04.2016 - Sir Roger Bannister (1929 - P)
- "Roger Bannister." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation. 10 May 2016. Web. 12 May 2016.
- Bannister, Roger, ed. Autonomic Failure: A Textbook of Clinical Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
- Banniser, Roger, ed. Brain and Bannister's Clinical Neurology. 7th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1992.
- 04.11.2016 - John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant (1922 - 2016)
- Nattrass FJ, Walton JN, Bauwens P, & Richardson AT. "Section of Physical Medicine: Discussion on the Clinical and Electromyographic Aspects of Polymyositis." Proceedings of t he Royal Society of Medicine. 9 Nov 1955. 49(105): 7-16.
- Walton, John N. & Adams, Raymond D. "Polymyositis and Related Conditions: A Critical Review of Present Knowledge." Polymyositis. Edinburgh: Livingstone, 1958. 1-26.
- Walton, John N. & Nattrass F. J. "On the Classification, Natural History and Treatment of the Myopathies." Brain. June 1954. 77(2): 169-228.
- Chinnery, Patrick F. "Lord Walton of Detchant: There and Back Again." Journal of Neuromuscular Diseases. Feb 2015.S89-S947. doi: 10.3233/JND-150001.
- 04.25.2016 - Hans Berger (1873 - 1941)
- Haymaker, Webb and Schiller, Francis. "Hans Berger." Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 171-175.
- "Hans Berger." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Mar 2016. Web. 12 Apr 2016.
- Brazier, Mary A. "The Electroencephalogram of Man." The Electrical Activity of the Nervous System: A Textbook for Students. 3rd ed. London: Pitman Medical Publishing Co. Ltd., 1951. 269-292.
- 05.09.2016 - Early Eastern Medicine and Neuroscience
- Dr. Richard Barohn. "Early Eastern Medicine and Neuroscience." Powerpoint slides. 2016.
- "Thomas Aquinas." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 May 2016. Web. 16 May 2016.
- Ashraf Kurdi, Sami Khouri, & Khaled A. Kurdi. "The Arab Contribution to Neurology: 500-1516 AD." Neurosciences Journal. 2013; 8(1)S1: S7-S13.
- Wael MY Mohamed. "History of Neuroscience: Arab and Muslim Contributions to Modern Neuroscience." IBRO History of Neuroscience (2012).
- Singh J, Desai MS, Pandav CS, Desai SP. Contributions of Ancient Indian Physicians - Implications for Modern Times. J Postgrad Med [serial online] 2012; 58:73-78. Available from: http://www.jpgmonline.com/text.asp?2012/58/1/73/93259
- "Averroes." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Apr 2016. Web. 16 May 2016.
- "Avicenna." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 12 May 2016. Web. 16 May 2016.
- "Maimonides." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 May 2016. Web. 16 May 2016.
- "Zhang Zhongjing." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 May 2016. Web. 16 May 2016.
- "Li Shizhen." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Apr 2016. Web. 16 May 2016.
- "Tu Youyou." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 16 May 2016. Web. 16 May 2016.
- 05.23.2016 - Benjamin Rush (1746-1813)
- Dr. Barohn's Slides here
- "Benjamin Rush Biography." The Biography.com website. 25 Apr 2016. Web.
- "Benjamin Rush (1746-1813)." Penn University Archives & Records Center. Web. http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1700s/rush_benj.html
- "Benjamin Rush." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 25 Apr 2016. Web. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Rush
- 06.06.2016 - Amariah Brigham (1798 - 1849)
- 06.13.2016 - Edward Brown-Sequard (1817-1894)
- Dr. Barohn's Slides here.
- Haymaker, W. & Schiller, F. "Edouard Brown-Sequard (1817-1894)." Founders of Neruology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 181-186.
- Brown-Sequard, E. "On the Transmission of Sensory Impressions by the Spinal Cord." Neurological Classics. New York, NY: Johnson Reprint Corportation, 1973. 49-50.
- 06.20.2016 - Silas Weir Mitchell (1829 - 1914)
- Dr. Barohn Slides here.
- Haymaker, W. & Schiller, F. "Weir Mitchell (1829-1914)." Founders of Neruology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 479-483.
- McHenry, L.C. "S. Weir Mitchell, His Injuries of Nerves and Their Place in Neurology." 1965 reprint by the American Academy of Neurology of Mitchell's Injuries of Nerves.
- Weir Mitchell, S. "Injuries of Nerves and Their Consequences." Reprinted from Mitchell SW Injuries of Nerves and Their Consequences. Philadelphia, PA. J.B. Lippincore & Co., 1872, pp 195-201.
- 06.27.2016 - William Alexander Hammond (1825-1900)
Academic Year 2014 - 2015:
- 03.30.2015 - Joseph Francois Felix Babinsky (1857 - 1932)
- 04.06.2015 - Charles Bell (1774 - 1842)
- 04.13.2015 - Paul Broca (1824 - 1880)
- 04.27.2015 - Edward Brown-Sequard (1817 - 1894)
- 05.04.2015 - Jean Martin Charcot (1825 - 1893)
- 05.11.2015 - Joseph Jules Dejerine (1849 - 1917)
- 05.18.2015 - Amand Duchenne (1806 - 1875)
- 06.01.2015 - Pierre Marie (1853 - 1940)
- 06.08.2015 - Octave Landry (1826 - 1865)
- Haymaker, Webb and Schiller, Francis. "Octave Landry." The Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 466-469.
- Landry, O. (1859). "A Note On Acute Ascending Paralysis." In Rottenberg, D. & Hochberg, F. (Eds.), Neurological Classics in Modern Translation (pp. 289-308). New York, NY: Hafner Press. 1977.
- 06.15.2015 - Gustave Roussy (1874 - 1948)
- Haymaker, Webb and Schiller, Francis. "Gustave Roussy." The Founders of Neurology. 2nd ed. Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1970. 510-513.
- Roussy, G. & Levy, G. (1926). "Seven Cases of a Unique Familial Illness: Gait Disorder, Clubfoot, Generalized Areflexia, and Clumsiness of the Hands." In Rottenberg, D. & Hochberg, F. (Eds.), Neurological Classics in Modern Translation (pp. 252-273). New York, NY: Hafner Press. 1977.
- 06.29.2015 - Moritz Heinrich Romberg (1795 - 1873)
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