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- Title
Sir Gordon Morgan Holmes (1876-1965): one of the founders of modern neurology.
- Authors
Sak, Jarosław Jerzy; Grzybowski, Andrzej; Baj, Jacek
- Abstract
Sir Gordon Morgan Holmes (1876-1965) was one of the most important founders of modern neurology and a great teacher and scientist. He was the first scientist to challenge the theory of the unitary function of the cerebellum and described cerebellar disorders. Holmes together with Thomas Grainger Stewart (1877-1957) described 40 cases of the rebound phenomenon in cerebellar disease (Stewart-Holmes maneuver or Stewart-Holmes test). He also described the symptoms of inherited neurodegenerative spinocerebellar ataxia involving the olivary nucleus (Gordon-Holmes syndrome). Independently from the Australian neurologist William John Adie (1886-1935), he described the partial iridoplegia (Holmes-Adie pupil or Holmes-Adie syndrome). His teaching skills became clearly visible in Goulstonian and Croonian lectures dedicated to spinal cord injuries.
- Subjects
HOLMES, Gordon Morgan; NEUROSURGEONS; CEREBELLUM diseases; OLIVARY nucleus; SPINAL cord injuries
- Publication
Neurological Sciences, 2018, Vol 39, Issue 1, p169
- ISSN
1590-1874
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s10072-017-3180-6