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Historian Peter J. Koehler revisits the remarkable medical journey behind three devastating infections — diphtheria, tetanus, and poliomyelitis — and the international efforts that led to their control through vaccination.

In this issue, Prof. Wolfgang Grisold, president of the World Federation of Neurology (WFN), updates readers on many exciting WFN activities, including the upcoming special Council of Delegates (COD) meeting and our ongoing advocacy ...

This issue features many reports from our member societies around the globe detailing their activities for July's World Brain Day 2025 and its theme, "Brain Health for All Ages. " You can read about WBD celebrations throughout Sri Lanka, ...

This issue provides the results of the election at October's Council of Delegates, which was held at the World Congress of Neurology (WCN) in Seoul, South Korea.

This issue provides the results of the election at October's Council of Delegates, which was held at the World Congress of Neurology (WCN) in Seoul, South Korea.

I'd like to warmly welcome all neurologists — and anyone interested in neurology and brain health worldwide — to the first World Neurology issue of 2026. As this is also the first issue under my tenure as World Federation of Neurology ...

[Published August 2017 in World Neurology Vol 32 No. 4]. The term eponym is derived from the Greek words epi- “sur” and onima “name. ” It is hardly possible to imagine daily life without eponyms, although we are not ...

[Published February 2015 in World Neurology Vol 30 No. 1]. Coma has been a phenomenon of interest for physicians as well as laypeople through the ages and was associated chiefly with stroke (“apoplexy”) and trauma1. One ...

[Published April 2014 in World Neurology Vol 29 No. 2]. This column on historical aspects of international relationships in the neurosciences usually deals with forms of international cooperation. Exactly 100 years ago, not only ...

The issue begins with the President's Column, where WFN President William Carroll discusses the success of the recent XXV World Congress of Neurology (WCN) 2021, held (virtually) in Rome, Italy. Prof. Carroll also elucidates the ...

[Published April 2011 in World Neurology Vol 26 No. 2]. The history of neurology in South America has its roots in 1885, when the Hospital San Roque de Buenos Aires initiated its Nervous Diseases Service. Its first director was Dr. ...

[Published February 2012 in World Neurology Vol 27 No. 1]. As far back as the second century AD, the Alexandrian physician Galen suggested that animal spirits drove nerve function, and that view – that the animal spirits were a ...

With respect to the history of functions successively attributed to it, the cerebellum is perhaps one of the most remarkable parts of the central nervous system. Five years ago, I wrote about vital functions attributed to the cerebellum ...

[Published 13 September 2019 in World Neurology Vol 34 No.46]. A number of medical students of human and animal bodies in the 17th century demonstrated a critical attitude toward the knowledge that was taught in books and by their ...

[Published October-November 2020 in World Neurology Vol 35 No. 4]. A Cautionary Tale From the History of Malaria Fever Therapy.