Twentieth century neurology : the British contribution
Neuroscience is one of the scientific fields where progress in the 20th century has been spectacular. With the coming of the new millennium, it is appropriate to look at some of the advances and the neurologists who helped to produce them. The original contributions in this volume reflect the background against which the rapid advances have taken place in the past 100 years
eBook, English, ©2001
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by, USA Office, World Scientific Pub., London, River Edge, NJ, ©2001
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1 online resource (xv, 313 pages) : illustrations, portraits
9781848161665, 1848161662
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List of Contributors ; Preface ; 1. Sir Charles Sherrington O.M.P.R.S. (1857-1952) ; 2. Henry Head (1861-1940) ; HEAD'S BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE ; UNIVERSITY YEARS ; EARLY MEDICAL CAREER (1890-1904) ; MARRIAGE TO RUTH MAYHEW IN 1904 ; FROM 1904 TO 1910 HEAD'S INTEREST IN SPEECH 1910-1926 THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918 ; AFTER THE GREAT FIRST WORLD WAR ; HEAD'S BOOK ON APHASIA ; THE FINAL FOURTEEN YEARS (1926-1940) ; References ; 3. The British Contribution to Aphasiology ; JOHN HUGHLINGS JACKSON ; HENRY CHARLTON BASTIAN HENRY HEAD MACDONALD CRITCHLEY ; STUDIES IN PARAGRAMMATISM ; CATEGORY-SPECIFIC SEMANTIC DISORDERS ; DEEP DYSLEXIA IN PATIENTS WITH LANGUAGE DEFICIT ; FUNCTIONAL IMAGING STUDIES OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AND COGNITIVE DEFICIT ; SPEECH THERAPY FOR APHASIA ; CONCLUSIONS ; References 4. The Concept of Hemispheric Lateralisation References ; 5. James Hinshelwood (1859-1919) and Developmental Dyslexia ; INTRODUCTION ; DEVELOPMENTAL DYSLEXIA ; MAIN EVENTS OF HINSHELWOOD'S LIFE ; AFTER HINSHELWOOD ; Acknowledgements ; References ; 6. Wilfred Harris (1869-1960)