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Book review
NINDS at 50: an incomplete history celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
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By Lewis P Rowland. Published by Demos Medical Publishing, New York, 2003, pp 321, $44.95. ISBN 1-888799-71-4
The epicentre of neurological research, which in the 1950’s was Cambridge, England, has since shifted to Bethesda, Maryland. If you want to know why, read this book about the history of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), from its origin in 1950 to the present. For those unfamiliar with the organisation of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, the NINDS is …