The philosopher of emerging clinical neurology

Emerging subspecialties in neurology: neurorehabilitation.

Since the initial Emerging Subspecialties article on neurorehabilitation was published in 2008, much has changed in the world and in medical practice. Veterans, athletes, and concussion patients have increased our awareness of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and neurorehabilitation has sought to optimize clinical outcomes by improving research. For interested trainees, there is now subspecialty ce...

Emerging subspecialties in neurology: neurohospitalist.

Kevin M. Barrett, MD, MSc William D. Freeman, MD Career opportunities available to graduates of neurology residency programs continue to grow. In contrast to traditional neurology subspecialty practice that is outpatient-centered and disease specific, neurology hospitalists or “neurohospitalists” specialize in the care of patients admitted to the hospital with a wide array of nervous system dis...

Jean-André Rochoux (1787-1852), a physician philosopher at the dawn of vascular neurology.

Jean-André Rochoux (1787-1852) can be considered the author, in 1812, of the first clinical and neuropathological description of cerebral hemorrhage and ischemia, based on concepts that underlie current vascular neurology. His biography reveals how his thinking was shaped by materialist philosophy, which was also the basis of his rigorous scientific reasoning. Due to his intransigent defence of...

The Basis of Clinical Neurology

Clinical Neurology

D.P.M. (Pp. x + 396. 25s.). London: Cassell. 1953. DR. PEARCE begins his book with a brief historical survey of the subject, showing that "the grave increase in Juvenile I)elinquency" has been a source of anxiety since the beginning of the nineteenth century. He ends his study by remarking that the real question is not so much one of deciding what the right preventive steps are, but whi they ar...