The Ventricle of Memory: Personal Recollections of Some Neurologists

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.