Season 2 Launches with Episode 85: Pioneers – The Trailblazers Who Launched Neurology
In this episode, I review the history of neurology, starting from the pioneers of modern neuroscience such as Santiago Ramon y Cajal, Charles Scott Sherrington and Edgar Adrian. In this chronicle I also highlight such interesting anecdotes as the dream-inspired work of Otto Loewi.
I then explored the foundations of clinical neurology which highlighted the important contribution of five neurologists – Moritz Heinrich Romberg, Duchenne de Bulougne, Wilhelm Heinrich Erb, John Hughlings Jackson, and Jean-Martin Charcot. I flavoured this narrative with such anecdotes as how the life and works of Thomas Willis intersected with the English civil war.
I made references in this podcast to such valuable works as the biography of Cajal by Benjamin Ehrlich titled The Brain in Search of Itself, of Thomas Willis by Carl Zimmer titled Soul Made Flesh, and of Jean-Martin Charcot by Toby Gelfand, Michel Bonduelle, and Christopher Goetz titled Charcot: Constructing Neurology.
Check out the episode:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/-JqvEhUgIqo
Spotify video: https://open.spotify.com/episode/72pd197KCmyhS29cFotzYC
Spotify audio: https://open.spotify.com/episode/76VdBg1hX62Coy6IHXLPJy
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