Jules Falret
Jules Philippe Falret (1824 - 1902) was a French psychiatrist. 1877, along with Ernest-Charles Lasègue (1816-1883) first described the concept of Folie à deux, initially termed Lasègue-Falret syndrome.
Category Neurology
John Madison Taylor
John Madison Taylor (1855-1931) was an American pediatric neurologist. He designed the first tendon reflex hammer in 1888
The Magic of the Neuro Exam
The neurological examination in 3 minutes, on video - the highest form of art?
Helpful Brainstem Figures
Helpful Brainstem Figures. Cross-sections of the brainstem. Medial brainstem syndromes and lateral brainstem syndromes
The rule of 4 of the brainstem
Peter Gates rule of 4 of the brainstem illustrated in a single diagram...why and how?
Brainstem Rules of 4
Gates described a simplified method for answering the question 'Where is the lesion?' using only the parts of the brainstem that we actually examine during a clinical examination to understand brainstem vascular syndromes.
Clinical Neurology a primer
Clinical neurology a primer is written by leading Australian neurology Associate Professor Peter Gates. This book is the ultimate guide to neurology for people like me – who don’t understand it, but need to know it! Available in kindle edition…
James Parkinson
James Parkinson (1755-1824) was an English surgeon, apothecary, palaeontologist, geologist and political activist. Parkinson's disease (1817)
Jean-Baptiste Octave Landry
Jean-Baptiste Octave Landry de Thézillat (1826 - 1865) was a French physician. Landry ascending paralysis (1859) as early description of Guillain–Barré syndrome (1916)
Myotomes and Differentiating Nerve Lesions
Myotomes and Differentiating Nerve Lesions
Spinal cord infarction
Spinal cord infarction is necrosis of a portion of the spinal cord as a result of an interruption of the blood supply to the spine
Hermann Oppenheim
Hermann Oppenheim (1858-1919) was a German neurologist. Oppenheim sign/reflex (1902) and the archaic term Oppenheim disease (1900)