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Principles of neurology in the light of history and their present use / Walther Riese.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riese, Walther, 1890-1976, author.
- Series:
- Nervous and mental disease monograph series.
- Nervous and mental disease monograph series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nervous system--Diseases.
- Nervous system.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 pages).
- Other Title:
- Principles of neurology
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nervous and Mental Disease Monographs, 1950.
- Summary:
- This monograph is devoted to an analysis and interpretation of the basic concepts used in neurology. The history of these principles is traced from their first and original conception to their present use. For the first time in the history of neurology, I believe, a systematic effort is made to submit these principles to the test of reasoning and logic. The author tries to integrate them into a general view of organized nature. He adopts the principle of evolution of nervous function which, however, he does not conceive as an unbroken progress from imperfect to more perfect types, but rather as a functional metamorphosis to which a basic coordinating mechanism, existing from the very beginning, is submitted.
- Contents:
- History
- A basic scheme of nervous function
- Integrative action
- Hierarchy of nervous function
- Inhibition
- Resistance
- Decentralized nervous function. Mobile hierarchy. (Life without a spinal cord)
- Progressive cerebration
- Evolution of nervous function
- Dissolution
- Lateral cerebral dominance
- Vulnerability
- "The law of the destroying lesions"
- Compensation
- Equipotentiality of nervous structures
- Life with an immature brain
- The doctrine of cerebral localization: Preliminary remarks
- The Jacksonian scheme of localization
- "Chronogenetic" localization
- Remote effects
- Diaschisis
- Restitution
- Substitution
- Life without a forebrain: Model of restitution
- Hemi-decerebration and lobectomies in the human subject
- History of symptoms
- The natural history of the lesion
- Mode of onset or "momentum of lesions"
- Site, extent and number of lesions, the law of the disturbed structural relations
- Symptoms resisting localization summary.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
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