Tending Graves: On Twenty Years

Twenty years on.

Twenty years on.

One of the problems of moving to the USA to practise medicine is taking "finals" again. I don't mean the exam for an Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) certificate, which is a one-day affair taken in the familiar surroundings of London or Edinburgh. Without the ECFMG, of course, one's chances of getting a visa to live in the USA are next to nil. But actually to practise a...

Cognitive Neuropsychology twenty years on.

Cognitive neuropsychology began in the second half of the nineteenth century when neurologists such as Lichtheim, Wernicke, Bastian, and others began to make inferences about the cognitive architecture of the intact language-processing system from studying the different ways in which spoken or written language abilities broke down after brain damage. They even began to express their proposals a...

The Synucleinopathies: Twenty Years On

In 2017, it is two hundred years since James Parkinson provided the first complete clinical description of the disease named after him, fifty years since the introduction of high-dose D,L-DOPA treatment and twenty years since α-synuclein aggregation came to the fore. In 1998, multiple system atrophy joined Parkinson's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies as the third major synucleinopathy. Her...

Twenty-Five Years of Research on Women

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