Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria (Feb 2015)

Neurological examination: pioneering authors and their books

  • Péricles Maranhão-Filho,
  • Maurice Borges Vincent,
  • Marcos Martins da Silva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/0004-282X20140215
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 73, no. 2
pp. 140 – 146

Abstract

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The objective of this article is to highlight some of the most important pioneering books specifically focused on the neurological examination and their authors. During the XIX Century, Alexander Hammond, William Gowers and Charles Mills pioneered the neurological literature, followed in the XX Century by Aloysio de Castro, Monrad-Krohn, Derek Denny-Brown, Robert Wartenberg, Gordon Holmes, and Russel DeJong. With determination and a marked sense of observation and research, they competently developed and spread the technique and art of the neurological exam.

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