This book traces the life and scientific career of Dr. John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911), the English physician who pioneered the development of neurology as a medical specialty during the reign of Queen Victoria. Jackson made a number of scientific discoveries in several areas of higher nervous activity and language, and contributed greatly to the study of various types of epilepsy. He isolated the form of epilepsy associated with localized convulsive seizures, known as Jacksonian epilepsy. His research on epilepsy stretched across a broad spectrum and included uncinate attacks, intellectual aurae, and many other manifestations, which are now collectively covered by the term temporal lobe epilepsy. He was also among the first to recognize the pattern of disease of the cerebellum. Jackson's research was not limited to epilepsy, and encompassed studies in aphasia and neuro-ophthalmology. Following the concepts of the philosopher Herbert Spencer, Jackson devised a hierarchy of the nervous system with positive and negative manifestations of neurological activity. His work was based on a detailed, insightful evaluation of the clinical symptoms of diseases of the brain, coupled with meticulous, repeated studies of their phenomena. Jackson's observations of localized brain lesions led to the first cases of neurosurgical ablation of brain tumours. Much of his original work still forms the foundation of our contemporary understanding of the dissolution of language caused by disease. A straightforward, comprehensive account of the life of an eminent physician, John Hughlings Jackson: Father of English Neurology is written as a monument to a man who aroused the deepest respect and affection in his students and colleagues. Neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, pathologists, neuroscientists, residents and medical students will find this book a source of inspiration, and will relish its rare description of medicine in 19th century England.

John Hughlings Jackson: Father of English Neurology

Biographies & Memoirs

Critchley, MacDonald

Critchley, Eileen A.

Professionals & Academics

Oxford University Press

Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music is a collaborative work that discusses musical perception in the context of medical science. The book is comprised of 24 chapters that are organized into two parts. The first part of the text details the various aspects of nervous function involved in musical activity, which include neural and mechanicals aspects of singing; neurophysiological interpretation of musical ability; and ecstatic and synesthetic experiences during musical perception. The second part deals with the effects of nervous disease on musical function, such as musicogenic epilepsy, the amusias, and occupational palsies. The book will be of great interest to students, researchers, and practitioners of disciplines that deal with the nervous system, such as psychology, neurology, and psychiatry.

Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music

Arts & Photography

Henson, R. A.

Music

Charles C. Thomas Pub Ltd

Dyslexia Defined

Medical Books

Silent Language

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Butterworth-Heinemann

Aphasiology and other aspects of language

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

The book features several superbly written essays on the senses and the psychology of laughter, in which Dr. Critchley displays his penchant for reflection and his vast store of historic, scientific, and humanistic knowledge. Fascinating biographic sketches of Hughlings Jackson and Josef François Babinski are included, as well as a first-hand account of the author's membership in the Hexagon Club, an informal dining and discussion group of prominent neurologists. Dr. Critchley shares a wealth of entertaining historic anecdotes on now-discredited theories, treatments, and syndrome descriptions, and offers provocative insights and hypotheses on various neurologic syndromes, including migraine, aphasia, developmental dyslexia, visual agnosia, and language disorders characteristic of senescence.

The Citadel of the Senses and Other Essays

Medicine

Raven Pr

In this volume, Dr. Critchley presents fascinating biographic sketches of mentors, colleagues, and friends who made major contributions to neurology during the last half century. These neurological pioneers were also gifted scholars, philosophers, and orators with original points of view, innovative approaches to problems, and aphorisms. Dr. Critchley presents fresh, insightful perspectives on medicine and society as he recalls the personal lives and creative achievements of people such as Paul Schuster, an outstanding leader in pre-World War II German neurology whose accomplishments were erased by the Nazis. Other influential figures discussed include Critchley's mentor and close friend Sir Francis M.R. Walshe; Alexander Romanovich Luria, the Soviet neurologist who made a great impact on neuropsychological thinking; Jean Lhermitte, one of Europe's foremost experts on diseases of the nervous system; and James S. Risien Russell, who assisted Victor Horsley in his anatomical researches and was the supreme exponent of instantaneous diagnosis.

The Ventricle of Memory: Personal Recollections of Some Neurologists

Divine Banquet of the Brain

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