title: Illnesses of the brain in John Quincy Adams.
abstract: John Quincy Adams, the sixth and perhaps most scholarly American president, served courageously despite familial essential tremor, depression, and cerebrovascular disease. His cousin Samuel Adams and his father John Adams also had essential tremor, which the later called "quiveration". Alcoholism and depression affected several members of J.Q. Adams's family. Following his own time as president, J.Q. Adams returned to duty as the congressman who most assiduously fought slavery, a fight he continued even after he had suffered a major left hemispheric stroke. His fatal collapse in Congress, protesting the Mexican War, is legendary among the final illnesses of American statesmen.
authors.affiliation: Neurology Department, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health, Columbus, OH, USA. Paulson.2@osu.edu
authors.forename: George
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Paulson
mesh_terms: D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000266:history*; D003863:Depression / Q000266:history*; D020329:Essential Tremor / Q000266:history*; D005197:Famous Persons; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014481:United States