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Founders of neurology: www.uic.edu/depts/mcne/homepage/neurofounders

Department of Neurology, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Barrack Road, Exeter EX2 5DW, UK

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Correspondence to:
Dr C Gardner-Thorpe;
cgardnerthorpe@doctors.org.uk

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This website from the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation at the University of Illinois, Chicago, provides a good source of images for those preparing a talk on some neuroscience topics. One hundred and five names are listed and most entries are hagiographic—describing the lives of the saints, in this case our neuroforebears who were the best, the most famous, the fathers of their subject. Korbinian Brodmann made a good contribution but perhaps we would not all agree that "all confusion of brain area nomenclature disappeared with Brodmann’s contribution".

Images and biographies are available on this site by using the menu to navigate between individual entries and the homepage, and this works well (in all but one cases). A great deal of time must have gone into preparing the entries but more rigorous editing is needed with regard to spelling (For example, Beckhterev (Bekhterev), Harry William Cusling (Cushing), Upsula (Uppsala), Peirre . . . [Full text of this article]