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Teofil Simchowicz (1879–1957) was a Polish-Jewish neurologist who studied medicine at the Warsaw University, and worked under the founder of modern Polish school of neurology, Edward Flatau (1868–1932). It was Flatau who encouraged him to join Alois Alzheimer (1864–1915) in Munich. Simchowicz focused his research on the neuropathological changes in dementia. He emigrated with his wife to Palest...

Movement disorders usually do not require emergent intervention; nevertheless, there are acute/subacute clinical settings in which the neurologist is consulted. It is in these circumstances that the neurologist must be prepared to accurately diagnose and properly treat the patient. We have reviewed the literature regarding movement disorder emergencies and divided them into hypokinetic (part 1)...