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Writing the history of an institution whose influence has been as deep and wide as the NINDS was not an easy assignment. The author of this history of the NINDS not only had to research and write about five decades of institutional change and progress, but also had to encompass within that story the incredible advances that have occurred in neuroscience and neurology over the past 50 years. Lewis P. Bud Rowland, M.D., was willing to tackle the task and his worthy accomplishment follows in the pages of this text...Dr. Rowland s career has spanned both clinical and academic neurology. It has given him an advantageous place from which to view the course of neuroscience over a lifetime devoted to unraveling the mysteries and mechanisms of neurological disorders. Within this book you will find the stories of some of the extraordinary individuals, who - either as intramural researchers, administrative directors, or extramural grantees - encouraged exploration or made discoveries themselves that permanently changed how we understand the workings of the brain. You will also find evidence for the continuous emphasis of moving basic science to clinical application - from bench to bedside. From the Foreword by Audrey S. Penn, M.D. NINDS has been one of the most powerful motors that pulled and pushed the rise of modern neuroscience. Its history and the history of neurology and neuroscience are essentially one. Well written, and lavishly accompanied by photographs that span the last half-century, this book will be a welcome addition to the library of everyone in brain research and the clinical neurosciences.

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Author:   Lewis P. Rowland, MD
Publisher:   Demos Medical Publishing
Imprint:   Demos Medical Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.20cm
Weight:   0.594kg
ISBN:  

9781888799712

ISBN 10:   1888799714
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   01 February 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"""Foreword: Audrey S. Penn, M.D. Birth and Development. Birth; First Steps; Development. Maturity. Directors of NINDS; The Scientific Directors; Intramural Program; Extramural Program; Training; Big Tickets: Collaborative and Field Studies; Decade of the Brain: David Mahoney and The Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives; The Voluntaries. NINDS-Supported Nobel and Lasker Awards. Five Lasker Awards and Six Nobels; Seymour S. Kety, M.D.; Louis Sokoloff, M.D.; Nancy S. Wexler, Ph.D.; Roscoe O. Brady, M.D.; D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D.; Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D.; Celebrating the Synapse; Julius Axelrod, Ph.D.; Arvid Carlsson, M.D.; Paul Greengard, Ph.D.; Eric R. Kandel, M.D. Looking to the Future. One Brain Science, Genomics, the Clinical Neurosciences, and the Future of NINDS. A Neuroscience Timeline. A Neuroscience Timeline; Fifty Years of Advances in Neuroscience. Appendices. NIH Institutes, Offices, and Centers, September 2001; NINDS Extramural Program Directors, September 2001; NINDS Intramural Researchers, September 2001; NINDS Administrative Organization, 1951-2001."""

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Within this book you will find the stories of some of the extraordinary individuals, who - either as intramural researchers, administrative directors, or extramural grantees - encouraged exploration or made discoveries themselves that permanently changed how we understand the workings of the brain. You will also find evidence for the continuous emphasis of moving basic science to clinical application - from bench to bedside. From the Foreword by Audrey S. Penn, M.D.

Well written, and accompanied by many photographs of people working in or affiliated to NINDS during the past 50 years, this book presents a living history of this uniqueinstitution that has been of enormous impact to research in many areas of neurology, neurosurgery, genetics, and neurosciences. One has tocongratulate Dr. Rowland for this excellent work that provides deep insights into the structure and function of the NINDS. May it flourish and progress further during the next decades. -- European Journal of Neurology 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

"""Within this book you will find the stories of some of the extraordinary individuals, who - either as intramural researchers, administrative directors, or extramural grantees - encouraged exploration or made discoveries themselves that permanently changed how we understand the workings of the brain. You will also find evidence for the continuous emphasis of moving basic science to clinical application - from bench to bedside. From the Foreword by Audrey S. Penn, M.D."

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Lewis P. Bud Rowland, M.D., was willing to tackle the task and his worthy accomplishment follows in the pages of this text... Dr. Rowland s career has spanned both clinical and academic neurology. It has given him an advantageous place from which to view the course of neuroscience over a lifetime devoted to unraveling the mysteries and mechanisms of neurological disorders.

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