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The Challenges Facing Neurology, Neurosurgery, and the Neurosciences
Thomas R. Swift, MD;
James I. Ausman, MD, PhD
Arch Neurol. 2005;62:1814-1816.
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INTRODUCTION
Neurology as a distinct specialty is relatively new in the history of medicine. Beginning with Charcot, who built his neurology on a firm phenomenologic basis, the specialty of neurology was developed rapidly by such outstanding clinicians as Babinski, Duchenne, Erb, Marie, and Hughlings Jackson. In the 19th century, clinical observations increasingly were linked to neuroanatomical substrates. At the turn of the century, neuropathology gained a foothold, and clinical methods were developed further by such luminaries as Ramón y Cajal. Primitive laboratory procedures began to relate spinal fluid and brain electrical changes to human disease. A cadre of superb clinicians emerged, and neurology departments began to appear at medical schools, where residents were taught to interpret signs and symptoms carefully at the bedside. Mentored by superb clinicians, but lacking definitive laboratory and imaging procedures, these young neurologists continued the tradition of a . . . [Full Text of this Article]
BRAIN RESEARCH ACCELERATES
HEALTH INSURANCE AND REGULATION
CHANGES IN PRACTICE
THE FUTURE
NEW ALLIANCES AND TREATMENTS
AUTHOR INFORMATION
Author Affiliations: Department of Neurology, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta (Dr Swift); and Division of Neurosurgery, UCLA, Los Angeles, Calif (Dr Ausman).
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