title: [Clinical neurophysiology and functional neuroimaging at the Société Française de Neurologie (1948-1998)].
abstract: The historical role of the French Neurology in the development of anatomo-clinical method is likely to explain why the first communications on electrophysiology were presented in Paris with some delay, as compared with other european societies where the neurophysiological tradition had been more lively. Though clinical neurophysiology, by essence, addresses the pathophysiology of neurological disorders, it has sometimes missed this target at its very beginning, when it aimed at providing data supposed to have some aetiological specificity, causing distrust among neurologists used to accept aetiological diagnosis only when based on post-mortem anatomical evidence. Thanks to the discovery of computerized tomography this time has been over for 25 years, and no one would question anymore the role of clinical neurophysiology and neuroimaging in Neurology, the former giving access to the timing of sensori-motor and cognitive pocesses and the latter to the localization of brain functions. This article reviews the neurophysiological literature published in the Revue Neurologique from 1948 to 1998.
authors.affiliation: Service de Neurologie Fonctionnelle et d'Epileptologie, Hôpital Neurologique, Lyon. mauguier@cismsun.univ-lyon1.fr
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mauguière
mesh_terms: D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000266:history*; D004569:Electroencephalography / Q000266:history; D004594:Electrophysiology / Q000266:history; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history / Q000503:physiopathology; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009069:Movement Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000266:history / Q000503:physiopathology; D009462:Neurology / Q000266:history*; D009482:Neurophysiology / Q000266:history*; D010297:Paris; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000266:history; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000266:history*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000266:history