Neurological eponyms derived from literature and visual art.
Eponyms are common in medicine, and neurology is not an exception. Most neurological eponyms originate from the names of those who first described a disease or pathological condition, as well as from the names of characters from the literature and mythical or biblical heroes. The article describes en block both widespread and nowadays seldom used or even forgotten neurological eponyms derived from literature and visual art.
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Clinics of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania. valma@takas.lt
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