Cover -- CONTENTS -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Sir Charles Sherrington O.M.P.R.S. (1857-1952) -- 2. Henry Head (1861-1940) -- HEAD'S BIRTH AND EARLY LIFE -- UNIVERSITY YEARS -- EARLY MEDICAL CAREER (1890-1904) -- MARRIAGE TO RUTH MAYHEW IN 1904 -- FROM 1904 TO 1910 -- HEAD'S INTEREST IN SPEECH 1910-1926 -- THE FIRST WORLD WAR 1914-1918 -- AFTER THE GREAT FIRST WORLD WAR -- HEAD'S BOOK ON APHASIA -- THE FINAL FOURTEEN YEARS (1926-1940) -- References -- 3. The British Contribution to Aphasiology -- JOHN HUGHLINGS JACKSON -- HENRY CHARLTON BASTIAN -- HENRY HEAD -- MACDONALD CRITCHLEY -- STUDIES IN PARAGRAMMATISM -- CATEGORY-SPECIFIC SEMANTIC DISORDERS -- DEEP DYSLEXIA IN PATIENTS WITH LANGUAGE DEFICIT -- FUNCTIONAL IMAGING STUDIES OF COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS AND COGNITIVE DEFICIT -- SPEECH THERAPY FOR APHASIA
Summary
Neuroscience is one of the scientific fields where progress in the 20th century has been spectacular. With the coming of the new millennium, it is appropriate to look at some of the advances and the neurologists who helped to produce them. The original contributions in this volume reflect the background against which the rapid advances have taken place in the past 100 years. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: SIR CHARLES SHERRINGTON, O.M., P.R.S. (1857-1952) (87 KB). Contents: Sir Charles Sherrington OM, PRS (1857-1952) (W C Gibson); Henry Head (1861-1940) (C Gardner-Thorpe); The British Contrib
