Handbook of Clinical Neurology (Series Editors: Aminoff, Boller and Swaab) To order this title, and for more information, click here
Edited By Stanley Finger, MD, Department of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA Francois Boller, MD, PhD, Bethesda, MD, USA Kenneth Tyler, MD, Reuler-Lewin Family Professor of Neurology, Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Colorado Health Sciences
Center, Denver Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Denver, CO, USA
Description The discipline of neurology emerged in the second half of the 19th Century. With it, chairs and departments of neurology, training programs,
specialized journals, and new societies came into being. Trying to understand disorders of the nervous system, however, has roots that
can be traced back into antiquity, and the new discipline did not develop in similar ways throughout the world. Further, whereas some
neurological disorders seemed relatively easy to understand even before there was a neurological examination, others posed challenges,
and many still remain shrouded in mystery. The authors of the present volume examine the fascinating prehistory of neurology, its emergence
with as an independent discipline, and how it developed throughout the world. They also look at a number of neurological disorders,
some sensory, others motor, and still others affecting higher cognitive functions, to illustrate how our understanding of neurological
disorders has changed over time. With 55 chapters, many covering material that has received little or no coverage in other books, this
history of neurology is unique in its breadth and depth. Filling a great void, its pages are laced with fascinating medical facts, information
about people, and cultural connections. This volume is sure to appeal to neurologists, historians of science and medicine, and inquisitive
people from other fields --- readers who wish to understand the roots of a discipline and the challenges faced by its pioneers.
Audience
Neurologists Neuroscience research workers
Contents
Part 1: Beginnings:
Ancient trepanation. Mesopotamia. Neurology in ancient Egypt. Neurology in the Bible and
the Talmud. The Greco-Roman world. After Galen: late antiquity and the Islamic world. Neurological conditions in the European Middle
Ages. The development of neurology and the neurological Sciences in the 17th century. Understanding the nervous system in the 18th century.
Part
2: Origins of Modern Neurology:
The birth of localisation theory. On the use of animal experimentation in the history
of neurology. The anatomical foundations of clinical neurology. The contributions of neurophysiology to clinical neurology: an exercise
in contemporary history. Landmarks of surgical neurology and the interplay of disciplines. Jean-Marie Charcot and the anatomo-clinical
method of neurology. History of the development of the neurological examination. Cognitive assessment in neurology. The origins of functional
brain imaging in humans.
Part 3: Further Developments of the Discipline:
Visual images and neurological
illustration. Neurological illustration: from photography to cinematography. Special hospitals in neurology and neurosurgery. A history
of child neurology and neurodisability. The history of neuroendocrinology: ?The spring of primitive existence?. The coming of molecular
biology and its impact on clinical neurology.
Part 4: Dysfunctions of the Nervous System:
Headache: a
historical outline. A history of seizures and epilepsies: from the falling disease to dysrhythmias of the brain. A history of cerebro-vascular
disease. A history of bacterial meningitis. Historical aspects of the major neurological vitamin deficiency disorders: Overview and fat-soluble
vitamin A. Historical aspects of the major neurological vitamin deficiency disorders: The water-soluble B vitamins. Muscular dystrophy.
Sensory and perceptual disorders. The history of movement disorders. The history of sleep medicine. The frontal lobes. The history
of aphasia: from brain to language. Alexia and agraphia.
Part 5: Regional Landmarks:
American neurology.
A historical overview of British neurology. The history of neurology in France. The history of neurology in Scandinavia. Neurology and
the neurological sciences in the German-speaking countries. The development of neurology in the Low Countries. The history of neurology
in Italy. A history of Russian and Soviet neurology and neuropathology. Neurology and traditional Chinese medicine. The history of clinical
neurology in Japan. The history of neurology in Australia and New Zealand. Clinical neurology in Latin America. The history of tropical
neurology.
Part 6: Treatments and Recovery:
Recovery of function: redundancy and vicariation theories.
The emergence of the age variable in 19th century neurology: considerations of recovery patterns in acquired childhood aphasia. Rehabilitation
therapies. The discovery of neurotransmitters: biochemistry in the service of neurology. Neural transplantation.
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