... Abstract Hallucinations, delusions, and confabulations are common symptoms between neurology and psychiatry. The neurological diseases manifesting with such symptoms (dementia, epilepsy, Korsakoff’s disease, brain tumors, Parkinson’s disease, migraine, right hemisphere stroke and others) would...

..., and his specific contribution to the field of neurology. We describe some of the neurological cases portrayed in Mann's work, and particularly epilepsy described in The Buddenbrooks , Felix Krull and The Magic Mountain , meningitis, neurosyphilis and migraines depicted in Doctor Faustus...

... that one can hardly believe the same artist painted them. Unanswered questions remain: was this deliberate or rather the expression of neurological aftereffects? Fig. 10 a Rivage par Soleil couchant (1894; reproduced from May 23rd, 1999, Auction catalogue, Le Touquet, maître Eric Pillon). b...

... Abstract The personal and bibliographical histories of the two Russian writers, Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy and Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, are strictly connected to social and scientific developments in nineteenth century Russia. In particular, in the field of medicine and of neurology, these two...

... Abstract Here, we chronicle the evolution of warfare from antiquity to modern times (18th century) and its impact on the later-to-be-defined field of neurology, especially with regard to brain, spinal cord and peripheral nerve injuries and neurological disorders caused by biological weapons...

... in identifying friends and family, a condition that Joseph Capgras (1873-1950) described in 1923 as a delusion of impostors and which has come to be known as the Capgras delusion [ 29 ]. Neurology in Paris during ‘La Commune' The war and of course ‘the Commune' did not spare Paris. Since 1867, Jean...

... Abstract With few exceptions, neurology was nonexistent in the United States until the Civil War years. From 1861 to 1865, the United States saw a bitter armed conflict between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederate States or Confederacy), and during those years, neurology...

... Abstract A critical analysis of the historical involvement of neurology and neurosurgery in military emergency care services enables us to better contextualize and appreciate the development of modern neurology at large. Wartime neurosurgery and civil brain science during the German Nazi period...

... providing neurological care for American and allied forces, as well as many civilians. Their practice included exposure to unfamiliar disorders including cerebral malaria, Japanese B encephalitis, sleep deprivation seizures, and toxic encephalitis caused by injection or inhalation of C-4 explosive...

..., specialized chairs were progressively established in Paris, but for a long time this remained restricted to the French capital. However, with the emergence of medicine as an academic discipline in several towns outside Paris, came the development of neurology. This was greatly influenced by former students...

... Abstract Opera is a complex musical form that reflects the complexity of the human condition and the human brain. This article presents an introduction to the portrayal of medical professionals in opera, including one neurologist, as well as two characters in whom neurological disease...

... unable to cover. I have concentrated, though not exclusively, on the literature of the 19th century. There is much neurology in the modern novel, but the accessibility afforded by the internet and other sources to accounts of neurological symptoms and diseases allows a present-day author an access...