Affiliation:
1. Elan Louis – Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
Abstract
In the 1920s, neurology was a fledgling discipline. Various attempts were made to establish programs relating to neurological care and research. One such initiative was the Neurological Study Unit (NSU) at the Yale School of Medicine. My aim is to chronicle the early years of the NSU (1924–40): the motivations for establishing the unit, its structure, its challenges, and its evolution. I have studied all documents related to the NSU at Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library. The NSU was heralded as a “combined attack on a single problem from many angles.” It was slow to develop, however, and had a number of missing elements. While some of this may have been due to a lack of funds and the absence of a dedicated neurologist, it was also the result of a failure to conceptualize a neurological unit, the slow evolution-into-existence of a nascent and fledgling medical discipline, growing pains and frictions within the leadership, a university-based rather than a hospital-based model of operation, and turf wars between neurology and allied disciplines.
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Reference84 articles.
1. Elan D. Louis, "The Early Struggles of the Fledgling American Academy of Neurology: Resistance from the Old Guard of American Neurology," Brain 136, no. 1 (2013): 343-54, https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/aws278
2. and Elan D. Louis, "Rejected Applications: An Early American Academy of Neurology Struggles to Define Its Membership," Neurology 83, no. 4 (2014): 359-63, https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000000625.
3. Louis, “Early Struggles,” 344; and Louis, “Rejected Applications,” 361.
4. Elan D. Louis, “The James Ramsay Hunt Case Books,” Journal of the History of the Neurosciences 12, no. 1 (2003): 34–43.
5. Harvey Cushing, “Psychiatrists, Neurologists and the Neurosurgeon,” Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 7, no. 3 (1934–35): 191–207; Frank W. Stahnisch, A New Field in Mind: A History of Interdisciplinarity in the Early Brain Sciences (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020).
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