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The first half is a history of the Institute, starting with the enabling legislation and concentrating on the people who made NINDS a powerhouse of neuroscience research The cast includes Administrators, Legislators, Scientists and two unique women, Mary Lasker and Florence Mahoney. Against this background, the leaders of the intramural programme provide the history of major contributions. The much larger extramural programme encompasses biomedical research centres throughout the United States. NINDS has been a major source of training for basic scientists in neurosciences and the single major source in developing clinical investigation. In the process modern scientific neurology and neurosurgery have been created. Oral histories provide human terms for the history.
More than half of the book is devoted to biographies of Scientists whose contributions earned special recognition by Lasker Awards or Nobel Prizes. Among them are Kety, Louis Sokoloff, Roscoe Brady, Nancy Wexler, Carleton Gajdusek, Stanley Prusiner, Julius Axelrod, Arvid Carlsson, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel. Together, their stories provide a history of scientific advance.
Reviews
"An excellent monograph on the 50 years of history of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke... This volume should be a part of every Neuroinstitute's Library to inspire younger neuroscientists, not only to match but surpass the achievements of those who built this Institute." -- World Neurology,
"It's amazing how (Dr. Rowland) made the people and the issues, both scientific and political, come alive. This is a fantastic intellectual resource for future historians of science, and a great crash course in neural science for the current generation of students." -- Dr. John Koester, Director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University
"The story of how neurology has been transformed into one of the most rapidly expanding and exciting areas of current medical advance is intimately bound up with the story of the National Institute for Neurological Disease and Stroke (NINDS), which is engagingly told by Lewis P. Rowland in NINDS at 50. Dr Rowland has himself been at the heart of progress in neurology over the past half century, and, like so many of the major figures in the USA, spent a formative period in the institute." -- The Lancet Neurology
"...Anyone interested in the development of neuroscience in the last half of the 20th century will benefit from reading this work." -- Journal of the American Medical Association
| Pages | 300 |
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| Date Published | 28 Feb 2003 |
| Publisher | Demos Medical Publishing |
| Subject/s | Neurology & clinical neurophysiology Neurosurgery |
