Neurological Infectious Conditions

Neurological infectious conditions are among the most severe disorders. The search for proper treatment has led researchers to investigate hidden corners of human medicine. As a matter of fact, the training being conducted by the practitioner who is called to care for these patients has already changed thorough out the years. As you may already know, one of best known disorder that affects the body’s neuroimmunity is multiple sclerosis. In addition, HIV remains as the most common infection by virus to the entire nervous system. One of the interesting facts, that ought to be pinpointed about the discovery of neurological infectious conditions, is the fact that the specialty board did not emerge from the cloaks of internal and psychiatric medicine until the World War II hadconcluded. After this worldincident, the medical field started to invest in the research, and that’s when the American Academy of Neurology, or AAN, was established. Neuropathology was considered as the integral part to be covered in the investigation, and the neurological infectious conditions were studied and taught in depth.

H. Houston Merritt: Academic Neurologist

H. Houston Merritt was one of the best-known neurologists from the mid-1950s. In his book titled “Textbook of Neurology” he discusses the incidence of neurological infectious conditions, and the entire first chapter of the book explains in depth the origin of the condition. During these years, the increasing and ever growing importance of infectious diseases in the field of neurology had brought out more light on the field of neurological genetic conditions and of course to the recent publications of textbooks which are dedicated in the studies on neurological infectious conditions and pediatric disorders.

The Early Practitioners

Those who were among the early practitioners of neurological infectious conditions, and neurology itself, were the first ones to get recognitions for their extensive studies. As a matter of fact, the primary purpose of Pasteur Institute, back in 1888, was to provide treatments to multitudes of people who had suffered from rabies. A neurologist from John Hopkins Hospital was noted to be the first neurology to take part in the treatment procedures, conducted to tabesdorsalis patients during the early years of the 20th century.

Constantin von Economo, 1917

Constantin von Economo was a psychiatrist and neurologist, who identified and described encephalitis lethargic, which was related to the influenza epidemic. On the other hand, anterior poliomyelitis had devastated many people during the 1840s and 1850s. Economo managed to write and distribute around 150 medical articles and books, where he described his discoveries and possible treatment in detail. As of today, modern ways of treating neurological infectious conditions are being introduced to patients who are suffering from such types of conditions. In fact,many of these treatments are carried out in the form of clinical trials and they are done in multiple clinical settings. In addition, Economo also conducted an extensive investigation on cytoarchitectonic studies. His most famous piece of work is “Cytoarchitectonics of the Adult Human Cerebral Cortex, which was published in two different volumes and contained over 800 pages.