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From Neuroscience to Neurology

Автор: Stephen Waxman

Год: 2005

Страницы: 547

Язык: Английский

Издательство: Elsevier Inc

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When I was a boy about five years old, I asked a grownup "will men ever be able to travel to the moon?" and the answer was "it's impossible."

Less than two decades later, as a medical student working in London, I watched on television as a man walked on the moon. The "impossible" had become possible.

This book focuses on the remarkable transformation that has occurred within neurology, a transformation from the "impossible" to the possible.

Twenty-five years ago computed tomography had just become available and was rapidly evolving, but magnetic resonance imaging was not yet feasible in the clinical realm. Medical students at some institutions were taught to try not to make the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis early in its course, since there was little that could be done. Some senior neurologists—good clinicians—made the diagnosis of MS and then walked away from the bed¬side, since there was little to offer in the way of effective therapy. Peripheral neuropathies were regarded as unbeatable. Strokes were treated with bed rest, and not much else.

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