History of Neurology sessions at American Academy of Neurology 52nd annual meeting (San Diego, California, 29 April - 6 May 2000)
History of Neurology sessions at American Academy of Neurology 52nd annual meeting: San Diego, California, 29 April - 6 May 2000. [Abstracts--whose numbers appear in square brackets--may be found in _Neurology_, April 11, 2000, v. 54 no. 7 supp. 3] [S33.001, S33.002] Presentation of the Lawrence C. McHenry Award. "The shorthand publications of Sir William Richard Gowers" Recipient: Kenneth L. Tyler (Denver, CO) [S33.003] "The history of decompression sickness and the building of the Eads Bridge" John B. Selhorst (St, Louis, MO) [S33.004] "Gheorghe Marinescu and the early usage of cinematography in the analysis of neurological patients" Alexander Barboi, Christopher G. Goetz (Chicago, IL), Radu Musetoiu (Bucharest, Romania) [S33.005] "Battle of the titans: Charcot and Brown-Sequard on cerebral localization" Christopher G. Goetz (Chicago, IL) [S33.006] "Vagal nerve stimulation for seizures in the 1880s" Douglas J. Lanska (Tomah, WI) [S41.001] "The centennial of _Care and Treatment of Epileptics_" Edward J. Fine, Linda H. Lohr (Buffalo, NY) [S41.002] "A physiological characterization of cerebral localization theories" George K. York, David A. Steinberg (Fiddletown, CA) [S41.003] "Diagram makers or classical neurologists? On the uses of history in a neurological debate" Jose G. Merino (London, ON, Canada) [S41.004] "A seasoned defense for animal experimentation" Tara Manteghi (Hamburgh, NY), Edward J. Fine, Linda Lohr (Buffalo, NY) [S41.005] "The fatal blow to Golgi's Reticular Theory of the nervous system: William His and his embryological approach to the study of neuronal connectivity" Elan D. Louis, Christian Stampf (New York, NY) [P03.039] "Freud's comparative study of hysteric and organic paralyses as commissioned by Charcot" Peter J. Koehler (Heerlen, The Netherlands) [P03.040] "Therapy for tetanus since the Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus" Thomas P. Black (Charlottesville, VA) [P03.041] "The drawings in the Korbinian Brodmann Archive" Hans H. Kluenemann (Burlington, VT) [P03.042] "Recursive fibers in the optic nerve: Did the rise of German nationalism influence Hermann Wilbrand?" Garrett H. Riggs (Birmingham, AL) [P03.043] "Johannes Nielsen, an American cerebral localizationalist" Victor W. Henderson (Los Angeles, CA) [P03.044] "Ernst Jendrassik: The Hungarian Charcot" Gabriella Szatmary, Edward J. Fine (Buffalo, NY) [P03.045] "History of the surgical treatment of spasmodic torticollis" Reina Benabou (New York, NY), Claude M. Bertrand (Montreal, PQ, Canada) [P03.046] "An anthropological study about neurological diseases among Kamayura Indians in Brazil" Carolina B. Vasquez, Javier Carod (Brasilia, DF, Brazil) [P03.047] "Avicenna and his description of trigeminal neuralgia" Jamshid Lofti, Amir Babak Ghaemmaghami (Tehran, Iran), Alireza Minagar, William J. Weiner (Miami, FL) Education programs with history themes [abstracts are available on the AAN website: http://www.aan.com ]: [2DS.007] Sunday, April 30, 2000 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Dinner Seminar 20th Century Neurology: Films of Derek Denny-Brown Director: Wendy M. Robertson (Ann Arbor, MI) Faculty: Joseph M. Foley (Cleveland, OH), Sid Gilman (Ann Arbor, MI) [3DS.004] Monday, May 01, 2000 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Dinner Seminar Neurologic Problems of Presidents Director: Loren A. Rolak (Marshfield, WI) Faculty: TBA [7AS.008] Friday, May 05, 2000 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM After Dinner Seminar The Cerebellum and Cognition Director: Jeremy D. Schmahmann (Boston, MA) Faculty: TBA