Ulf Lindblom - a very distinguished neurologist

Ulf Dieckmann , Johan A .

Millions of species currently exist on earth, and to secure an understanding of how all this magnificent variety arose is no small task. Biologists have long accepted Darwinian selection as the central explanation of adaptation and evolutionary change; yet, to date, no similar agreement has emerged about evolutionary processes that can create two species out of one. Almost 150 years after Darwi...

Joseph Jumentié (1879-1928), a forgotten neurologist.

Joseph Jumentié (1879-1928), through his clinical skill and expertise in anatomical pathology, enhanced the prestige of the master neurologists he studied under- Jules Dejerine, Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke and Joseph Babiński -and their fame overshadowed the crucial support that Jumentié provided them. Following a remarkable doctoral thesis in 1911, which defined the semiology of tumors in the cer...

Tuve Löfström & Ulf Johansson

When performing data mining, the selection of data mining technique is a critical decision. Often this choice boils down to whether a transparent model is needed or not. Most research indicates that techniques producing transparent models, such as decision trees, often have an inferior accuracy compared to techniques such as neural networks. On the other hand, models created by neural networks ...

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Neurosurgery and the neurologist.

When Thomas Willis (1621–1675) first used the term “ neurology” in Cerebri Anatome to mean knowledge of the cranial, spinal, and autonomic nerves, he did not specify whether practitioners should be physicians or surgeons. The physicians won the mantle but somehow this did not catch the imagination of the public or even aspiring doctors in the same way as that of being a “brain surgeon”, a term ...