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Neurology

Neurological and Psychiatric Specialties
Origin Emerged as a distinct clinical specialty in the nineteenth century, with the Paris school led by Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpetriere central to its formation.

Neurology is the branch of medicine dealing with disorders of the nervous system, the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. It developed as a distinct clinical discipline in the nineteenth century, closely associated with the Paris school around Jean-Martin Charcot, which established systematic clinical and pathological correlation of nervous disease. This atlas records what the historical record supports and is not medical advice.

Facts
Origin Period
Emerged as a distinct clinical specialty in the nineteenth century, with the Paris school led by Jean-Martin Charcot at the Salpetriere central to its formation. 2
Classification
Type/Classification
Clinical Specialty 1
FAQs

Which school of medicine is neurology closely associated with?

The Paris school around Jean-Martin Charcot.

Neurology developed as a distinct clinical discipline in the nineteenth century, closely associated with the Paris school around Jean-Martin Charcot.

What method did Charcot's school establish?

Systematic clinical and pathological correlation of nervous disease.

The Paris school established systematic clinical and pathological correlation of nervous disease.
Connections

Associated With

Alzheimer's Disease, Conditions
Bell's Palsy, Conditions

Acute facial nerve (cranial nerve VII) palsy; neurology specialty.

Discovery of Prions, Discoveries
Discovery of the Electroencephalograph, Discoveries
Epilepsy, Conditions
Huntington's Disease, Conditions

Inherited neurodegenerative disorder; neurology specialty.

Meningitis, Conditions
Migraine, Conditions
Multiple Sclerosis, Conditions
Narcolepsy, Conditions

Chronic sleep disorder of neurological origin; neurology specialty.

Neuroscience, Medical Specialties

Neurology is the certified diagnostic specialty this broader translational field feeds and draws from.

Neurosurgery, Medical Specialties
Parkinson's Disease, Conditions
Restless Legs Syndrome, Conditions

Neurological movement/sensory disorder; neurology specialty.

Stroke, Conditions
Tetanus, Conditions

Long-Form Articles

A Specialty Named for Nerves That Still Argues About the Mind, Articles

Notable Specialists

Adolf Strümpell, Healers
Source Adolf Strümpell (Wikipedia)
Adolf Wallenberg, Healers
Source Adolf Wallenberg (source article)
Albert Moll (German psychiatrist), Healers
Source Albert Moll (German psychiatrist) (Wikipedia)
Alfred Goldscheider, Healers
Source Alfred Goldscheider (Wikipedia)
Alois Alzheimer, Healers

Alois Alzheimer described the neuropathology of the disease that bears his name.

Carl Wernicke, Healers
Source Carl Wernicke (Wikipedia)
Charles Bell, Healers
Source Charles Bell (Wikipedia)
Eduard Hitzig, Healers
Source Eduard Hitzig (Wikipedia)
Eduard Ludyansky, Healers
Source Eduard Ludyansky (Wikipedia)
Frederic Lewy, Healers
Source Frederic Lewy (Wikipedia)
Friedrich Jolly, Healers
Source Friedrich Jolly (Wikipedia)
Gabriel Anton, Healers
Source Gabriel Anton (Wikipedia)
Geoffrey Jefferson, Healers
Source Geoffrey Jefferson (Wikipedia)
Hans Berger, Healers

Psychiatrist who recorded the first human electroencephalogram in 1924.

Hermann Oppenheim, Healers
Source Hermann Oppenheim (source article)
Hoimar von Ditfurth, Healers
Source Hoimar von Ditfurth (Wikipedia)
Hugo Liepmann, Healers
Source Hugo Liepmann (Wikipedia)
Ibn Sina, Healers

The Canon of Medicine includes a systematic account of the brain and nervous system and their disorders, drawing on and extending Galenic neuroanatomy.

Source The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of HumanityRoy Porter
John Abercrombie (physician), Healers
Source John Abercrombie (physician) (Wikipedia)
Karl Bonhoeffer, Healers
Source Karl Bonhoeffer (Wikipedia)
Klaus Conrad, Healers
Source Klaus Conrad (Wikipedia)
Ludwig Edinger, Healers
Source Ludwig Edinger (Wikipedia)
Moritz Heinrich Romberg, Healers
Source Moritz Heinrich Romberg (Wikipedia)
Nikolaus Friedreich, Healers
Source Nikolaus Friedreich (Wikipedia)
Oskar Vogt, Healers
Source Oskar Vogt (Wikipedia)
Oswald Bumke, Healers
Source Oswald Bumke (source article)
Pitie-Salpêtrière Hospital, Medical Institutions

Jean-Martin Charcot's clinical demonstrations at Salpetriere in the second half of the nineteenth century are a founding episode of modern neurology, well established in general histories of medicine.

Source A History of MedicineLois N. Magner
Robert Wartenberg, Healers
Source Robert Wartenberg (Wikipedia)
Theodor Ziehen, Healers
Source Theodor Ziehen (Wikipedia)
Viktor Frankl, Healers
Source Viktor Frankl (Wikipedia)
Viktor von Weizsäcker, Healers
Source Viktor von Weizsäcker (Wikipedia)
Wilhelm Griesinger, Healers
Source Wilhelm Griesinger (Wikipedia)
Wilhelm Heinrich Erb, Healers
Source Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (Wikipedia)
Woldemar Kernig, Healers
Source Woldemar Kernig (Wikipedia)

Treats

Alzheimer's Disease, Conditions
Epilepsy, Conditions
Guillain-Barre Syndrome, Conditions
Migraine, Conditions
Multiple Sclerosis, Conditions
Parkinson's Disease, Conditions
Stroke, Conditions
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Medical specialty
WikipediaClassification table
Quote, Classification table
Medical specialties that focus on the diagnosis and non-surgical treatment of disease.
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2. A History of Medicine
Lois N. Magner, CRC Press
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.View the Source
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
Roy Porter, W. W. Norton and Company, 1997Notable Specialists: Ibn Sina
Charles Bell (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Charles Bell, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Charles Bell, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
neurologist
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Carl Wernicke (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Carl Wernicke, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Carl Wernicke, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
led to groundbreaking realizations of the localization of brain function
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Wilhelm Heinrich Erb (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Wilhelm Heinrich Erb, Lead and biography [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Wilhelm Heinrich Erb, Lead and biography [specialist-in]
was a German neurologist
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Nikolaus Friedreich (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Nikolaus Friedreich, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Nikolaus Friedreich, Lead
was a German pathologist and neurologist
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Frederic Lewy (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Frederic Lewy, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Frederic Lewy, Lead
was a German-born American neurologist
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Moritz Heinrich Romberg (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Moritz Heinrich Romberg, Lead sentence, field
Quote, Notable Specialists: Moritz Heinrich Romberg, Lead sentence, field
was a German medical doctor and neurologist
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Karl Bonhoeffer (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Karl Bonhoeffer, Lead paragraph, profession
Quote, Notable Specialists: Karl Bonhoeffer, Lead paragraph, profession
was a German neurologist, psychiatrist and physician
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Wilhelm Griesinger (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Wilhelm Griesinger, Lead sentence of the English Wikipedia article [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Wilhelm Griesinger, Lead sentence of the English Wikipedia article [in-group]
was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Stuttgart
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Oskar Vogt (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Oskar Vogt, Lead [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Oskar Vogt, Lead [in-group]
was a German physician and neurologist
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Viktor Frankl (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Viktor Frankl, Lead paragraph
Quote, Notable Specialists: Viktor Frankl, Lead paragraph
was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor
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John Abercrombie (physician) (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: John Abercrombie (physician), Article text
Quote, Notable Specialists: John Abercrombie (physician), Article text
regarded as the first textbook in neuropathology
View the Source
Hermann Oppenheim (source article)
Notable Specialists: Hermann Oppenheim, Article text, specialty
Quote, Notable Specialists: Hermann Oppenheim, Article text, specialty
Nervenpathologie für Neurologie
View the Source
Gabriel Anton (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Gabriel Anton, Lead and body
Quote, Notable Specialists: Gabriel Anton, Lead and body
was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist
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Ludwig Edinger (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Ludwig Edinger, Article text [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Ludwig Edinger, Article text [specialist-in]
In 1914 he was also appointed the first German professor of neurology
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Eduard Hitzig (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Eduard Hitzig, Article text [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Eduard Hitzig, Article text [specialist-in]
was a German neurologist and neuropsychiatrist of Jewish ancestry
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Viktor von Weizsäcker (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Viktor von Weizsäcker, Career
Quote, Notable Specialists: Viktor von Weizsäcker, Career
In 1941, he succeeded Otfrid Foerster as professor of neurology in Breslau
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Albert Moll (German psychiatrist) (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Albert Moll (German psychiatrist), Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Albert Moll (German psychiatrist), Lead
was a neurologist, psychologist, sexologist, and ethicist
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Hugo Liepmann (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Hugo Liepmann, Lead
Quote, Notable Specialists: Hugo Liepmann, Lead
was a German neurologist and psychiatrist born in Berlin
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Theodor Ziehen (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Theodor Ziehen, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Theodor Ziehen, Lead sentence [specialist-in]
was a German neurologist and psychiatrist
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Klaus Conrad (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Klaus Conrad, Lead paragraph [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Klaus Conrad, Lead paragraph [in-group]
Sudeten German neurologist and psychiatrist
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Adolf Strümpell (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Adolf Strümpell, Lead paragraph [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Adolf Strümpell, Lead paragraph [in-group]
was a Baltic German neurologist
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Geoffrey Jefferson (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Geoffrey Jefferson, Lead, first sentence [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Geoffrey Jefferson, Lead, first sentence [specialist-in]
was a British neurologist and pioneering neurosurgeon
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Alfred Goldscheider (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Alfred Goldscheider, Lead, first sentence [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Alfred Goldscheider, Lead, first sentence [specialist-in]
was a German neurologist born into a Jewish family
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Robert Wartenberg (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Robert Wartenberg, Lead [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Robert Wartenberg, Lead [in-group]
was a clinical neurologist and professor
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Friedrich Jolly (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Friedrich Jolly, Lead, occupation
Quote, Notable Specialists: Friedrich Jolly, Lead, occupation
was a German neurologist and psychiatrist
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Oswald Bumke (source article)
Notable Specialists: Oswald Bumke, Lead sentence [in-group]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Oswald Bumke, Lead sentence [in-group]
was a German psychiatrist and neurologist
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Woldemar Kernig (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Woldemar Kernig, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Woldemar Kernig, Lead paragraph [specialist-in]
was a Russian internist and neurologist of Baltic German descent
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Adolf Wallenberg (source article)
Notable Specialists: Adolf Wallenberg, Lead paragraph
Quote, Notable Specialists: Adolf Wallenberg, Lead paragraph
10 April 1949) was a German internist and neurologist.
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Hoimar von Ditfurth (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Hoimar von Ditfurth, Lead and Biography section [specialist-in]
Quote, Notable Specialists: Hoimar von Ditfurth, Lead and Biography section [specialist-in]
became a private lecturer in psychiatry and neurology
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Eduard Ludyansky (Wikipedia)
Notable Specialists: Eduard Ludyansky, Lead sentence
Quote, Notable Specialists: Eduard Ludyansky, Lead sentence
was a Russian neurologist, acupuncturist, and apitherapist
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