2016, Number 2
An Med Asoc Med Hosp ABC 2016; 61 (2)
History of clinical neurophysiology at the ABC Medical Center
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ABSTRACT
The precursor of clinical neurophysiology was Hans Berger, who performed the first electroencephalogram study at Jena University, Germany, in 1929, which gave a great boost to neurology, mainly in the epilepsy field. For centuries, eminent scientists had studied the human brain and made multiple attempts to register it. In our country, doctors Teodoro Flores, José Gonzalez Varela y Pedro Ortiz Estrada were the forerunners. The latter was the first to perform these studies in the English Hospital in Mariano Escobedo, and he did so until 1981, when he retired from medical practice. Dr. Mario Shkurovich Zaslavsky began his activity, covering education, research and innovation of all neurophysiological studies, which kept our hospital at the forefront. After his death in 2005, Dr. Paul Shkurovich Bialik took his place, where he remains to date, with important achievements in the same fields as his father, as this issue of the magazine proves.REFERENCES