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| ArticleTitle | Intellectual heritage of John Hughlings Jackson |
| Language | J |
| AuthorList | Atsushi Yamadori |
| Affiliation | formerly at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine |
| Publication | Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 27 (4), 267-275, 2011 |
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| Abstract | John Hughlings Jackson (1835-1911), an English neurologist and philosopher, is one of the greatest neurologists in the world. In commemoration at the hundredth year after his death, two of his most important thoughts on the pathomechanism of the higher brain disorders, i.e. doctrine of evolution and dissolution, and doctrine of concomitance between nervous states and mental states were revisited. It was stressed that his insight about the dynamic and hierarchichal nature of the human central nervous system remains even today to be a valid and useful idea for medical students who wish to confront the complex nature of neuropsychological disorders. |
| Keywords | Hughlings Jackson, doctrine of evolution, doctrine of dissolution, doctrine of concomitance, double condition of symptomatology |
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