Gaspard Vieusseux
Swiss physician Gaspard Vieusseux (1746–1814) described cerebrospinal meningitis in 1805 and gave the first clinical account of lateral medullary syndrome.
Category Neurology
Moritz Benedikt
Moritz Benedikt (1835-1920) was an Austro-Hungarian neurologist. Benedikt syndrome (1889); the criminal mind; dowsing and Darsonvalisation
Parry-Romberg syndrome
Parry-Romberg syndrome: progressive facial hemiatrophy usually involving the soft tissues of one side of the face. Parry (1825) Romberg (1846)
George Huntington
George Huntington (1850-1916) was an was an American physician. Described Huntington's disease (1872) at age 22 based on his family
Charles Miller Fisher
Charles Miller Fisher (1913 - 2012) was a Canadian neurologist. Miller Fisher syndrome (1956) an acquired nerve disease variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome.
André Strohl
André Strohl (1887-1977) was a French physician and physicist. Guillain-Barré-Strohl syndrome described in 1916
Neuroimaging Cases 007
Nail gun injury. First in our Neuroimaging case study series with Teresa Crow , Troy Carnwath, Scott DiMeo, L. Erin Miller and Natalie Rall
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
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.