Beginnings Of Neurology Research Articles

Pražské neurologické kliniky v letech (1936) 1938–1945

This contribution follows up closely on Hlaváčková’s text on the beginnings of neurology at faculties of medicine in Prague. The first part describes the generational change at neurology departments of both faculties of medicine (the Czech and the German one) in late 1930s and the development of the Clinic of Neurological Diseases under Professor Kamil Henner’s leadership. In the second part, the author follows how, in the ever more restricted conditions after the closing of Czech universities and until the end of the Second World War (November 1939 – May 1945), the originally clinical institute of the Faculty of Medicine of the Charles University was transformed into merely a general medical facility and how its situation evolved. The third part focuses on the foundation and development of a separate neurology clinic of the German Faculty of Medicine in 1939–1945, which was headed by Professor Kurt Albrecht, the last rector of the German University in Prague.

"Dark Victory" (prognosis negative): The beginnings of neurology on screen.

Editors' Note: In WriteClick this week, Dr. Gilbert clarifies a naming error in “‘Dark Victory’ (prognosis negative): The beginnings of neurology on screen” and provides several interesting details, historical and neurologic, about the lives of Susan Hayward and Rita Hayworth. In reference to “The place of generic modified-release formulations for epilepsy: Slow and steady,” Dr. Baumann questions whether there are any proven benefits in efficacy or adherence …

Mercy killing in neurology: The beginnings of neurology on screen (II).

The history of Neurocinema includes neuroethics, and this theme was first used in 2 films released in the 1940s in both Germany and the United States. Ich Klage An (I Accuse) is about "terminal" multiple sclerosis in a young woman and the decision to determine one's own fate. The protagonist anticipates becoming "deaf, blind, and idiotic" and asks her husband to administer a toxic drug dose, which he does. The film disturbingly suggests that the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis is tantamount to a death sentence. Ich Klage An (1941) played during the medical murders era ("Aktion T-4" program) but has few references to National Socialism, except for judges with Nazi emblems on their robes making a brief Nazi salute and a jury chamber with a bust of Hitler. Party leadership agreed that the film made a deep impression, but the intended effect on the viewing public is largely unknown. An Act of Murder (1948) involves another young woman with an inoperable brain tumor. When her condition worsens during a trip, her husband deliberately crashes the car, killing her but surviving himself. A subsequent trial finds that she died of an overdose rather than the crash. The trial judge dismisses the murder charge, but the film argues the morals of mercy killing. These films came out during the Nazi euthanasia program and founding of the Euthanasia Society of America in 1938. The choice of neurologic disease by these filmmakers and scriptwriters to defend euthanasia is remarkable.

The place of generic modified-release formulations for epilepsy: Slow and steady

Editors' Note: In WriteClick this week, Dr. Gilbert clarifies a naming error in “‘Dark Victory’ (prognosis negative): The beginnings of neurology on screen” and provides several interesting details, historical and neurologic, about the lives of Susan Hayward and Rita Hayworth. In reference to “The place of generic modified-release formulations for epilepsy: Slow and steady,” Dr. Baumann questions whether there are any proven benefits in efficacy or adherence with extended-release formulations. Author French responds. —Megan …

George S Rousseau, Nervous acts: essays on literature, culture, and sensibility, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. xii, 395, £17.99 (paperback 1-4039-3454-1).

George S Rousseau, Nervous acts: essays on literature, culture, and sensibility, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. xii, 395, £17.99 (paperback 1-4039-3454-1).

Persistent Auditory Hallucinations That Are Unresponsive to Antipsychotic Drugs

Persistent Auditory Hallucinations That Are Unresponsive to Antipsychotic Drugs

NEUROLOGY—PAST AND PRESENT

The beginnings of neurology as a separate discipline of medicine are so clearly defined that one may say: Neurology began with Romberg, a hundred years ago. His famous "propedeutic clinic" at Berlin, where systematic neurologic examination and clinical diagnosis were first carried out, was an active institution in 1837, and his textbook on nervous diseases, the first formal treatise on the subject, followed in 1840 and 1846. Almost contemporary in Paris that strange and interesting figure Duchenne of Boulogne was haunting the larger Paris hospitals, delving into case histories and unselfishly devoting himself to neurology and electrophysiology. An even more important Parisian figure was soon to follow in Charcot, who created the greatest neurologic clinic of modern times and gave lessons in visualization which few students could ever forget. Marie and Dejerine carried on the great French tradition even to our times, as did Erb in Heidelberg, following the footsteps