Derek Ernst Denny-Brown, DPhil, Oxford University
Affiliations: | Neurology | Boston City Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States |
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"Derek Denny-Brown"Bio:
Denny-Brown was born in New Zealand, moved to Oxford to work with Charles Sherrington and in 1928 took up his medical practice at the National Hospital Queen Square, where he worked until 1941. Here he worked with a series of the world’s leading neurologists, including Francis Walshe, Gordon Holmes and Charles Symonds. With the advent of war, he took up the Chair in Neurology at Harvard. His classic book – The Reflex Activity of the Spinal Cord – was published by Oxford in 1932. In 1946 he was appointed to the James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology at Harvard, which he held for 19 years. His research library remains, featuring particularly fascinating films of his lesioning experiments. He trained a whole generation of academic neurologists and was undoubtedly the most important figure in the field of his generation.
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1949 AANP President
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Sign in to add mentorCharles Scott Sherrington | grad student | 1928 | Oxford |
Gordon Holmes | post-doc | 1928-1933 | National Hospital, Queen Square, London |
Charles Symonds | post-doc | 1928-1933 | National Hospital, Queen Square, London |
Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson | post-doc | 1928-1933 | National Hospital, Queen Square, London |
John Farquhar Fulton | research scientist | 1936 | Yale |
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Denny-Brown D, Chambers RA. (1976) Physiological aspects of visual perception. I. Functional aspects of visual cortex. Archives of Neurology. 33: 219-27 |
DENNY-BROWN D, VIETS H, ADAMS R, et al. (1964) JAMES BOURNE AYER, MD 1882-1963. Archives of Neurology. 11: 449-51 |
Bennett HS, Sxent-Gyorgyi A, Denny-Brown D, et al. (1958) What We Need to Know About Muscle Neurology. 8: 65-65 |
ADAMS RD, CAMMERMEYER J, DENNY-BROWN D. (1949) Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic encephalopathy. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. 8: 1-29 |
Pearson C, Adams RD, Denny-Brown D. (1948) Traumatic necrosis of pretibial muscles. The New England Journal of Medicine. 239: 213-217 |
Denny-Brown D, Adams RD, Brenner C, et al. (1945) The pathology of injury to nerve induced by cold. Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. 4: 305-323 |
Denny-Brown D, Adams RD, Fitzgerald PJ. (1944) Pathologic Features Of Herpes Zoster: A Note On Geniculate Herpes Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 51: 216-231 |
Brown CW, Creed RS, Denny-Brown D, et al. (1933) Reflex Activity of the Spinal Cord The American Journal of Psychology. 45: 780 |
Denny-Brown D, Eccles JC, Liddell EGT. (1929) Observations on Electrical Stimulation of the Cerebellar Cortex Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 104: 518-536 |
Denny-Brown DE, Sherrington CS. (1928) Subliminal fringe in spinal flexion. The Journal of Physiology. 66: 175-80 |