Charles Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) was an English neurophysiologist. Sherrington’s Laws (1897–1900); Liddell–Sherrington Reflex (1924) and defining the synapse
Category Neurology
Frederick Weber
Frederick Parkes Weber (1863–1962) English physician and dermatologist; author of over 1,200 medical articles; described Rendu-Osler-Weber disease and Sturge-Weber-Kalischer syndrome; renowned numismatist and scholar of medical philosophy.
Hermann Weber
Sir Hermann David Weber (1823–1918) – German-born physician in London; pioneer of open-air treatment for tuberculosis; co-author of The Mineral Waters and Health Resorts of Europe; namesake of Weber’s syndrome; knighted for services to medicine.
MacDonald Critchley
Macdonald Critchley (1900–1997): Pioneering neurologist of higher brain function; author of The Parietal Lobes; leader, teacher, and medical humanist.
Claude Bernard
Claude Bernard (1813–1878), French physiologist, pioneered experimental medicine, homeostasis, and glucose metabolism. Father of modern physiology.
William Gowers
Sir William Richard Gowers (1845 - 1915) was an English neurologist. Gowers sign (1879). Esteemed author of Manual of the Diseases of the Nervous System
William Rivers
William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864–1922): neurologist, anthropologist, WWI shell shock pioneer, dermatomes co-mapper, protopathic/epicritic sensation theorist
Hans Chiari
Hans Chiari (1851-1916) was an Austrian pathologist. Eponymously affiliated with the Chiari malformation; Type II Chiari malformation (Arnold–Chiari malformation) and Budd–Chiari syndrome
Carl Wernicke
Carl Wernicke (1848–1905), German neurologist who described Wernicke’s area and aphasia, and identified Wernicke’s encephalopathy from thiamine deficiency
Klumpke Palsy
Lower brachial plexus injury, with consequent weakness and wasting of the C8–T1 musculature. Augusta Klumpke (1859-1927)
Carl Westphal
Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890) was a German neurologist and psychiatrist. Westphal sign, Westphal syndrome, Westphall-Strümpell pseudosclerosis, Westphal-variant Huntington disease, Leyden-Westphal ataxia, and the Edinger-Westphal nucleus
Neuroimaging Cases 006
Subarachnoid haemorrhage. Neuroimaging case series. Images, text and cases collated by Teresa Crow MD (Emergency Medicine) and L. Erin Miller MD (Neurosurgery)