Abstract
I read with interest the Presidential Address of Dr. Sandra Olson, which focused on the role of women in neurology.1 In her address, she honored great female neurologists/neuroscientists, specifically highlighting pioneers like Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke and Cecile Vogt. I would like to champion the cause of three other women, not mentioned by Dr. Olson, but whom I feel deserve equal recognition for their contributions to our specialty. The first is Rita Levi-Montalcini, who introduced the concept of neurotrophism and discovered nerve growth factor. Levi-Montalcini, an Italian Jew, found her plans to become a neurologist blocked by Mussolini's “Manifesto per …
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