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Aphasia and drawing elephants

When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.

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The indelible harm caused by conversion therapy

With first-hand evidence from two powerful testimonies, neurologist Jules Montague explores the destructive history of conversion therapy, a punitive treatment designed to ‘cure’ people of homosexuality.

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When wounds replace words

For the many thousands of refugees waiting in Greece, the process to establish the truth of their tragic personal histories is often extremely upsetting. But a group of medics and legal workers is working together to make the system more humane.

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The mystery of the malignant brain

In 1884 a neurologist successfully used a patient’s symptoms, plus a new kind of map, to locate a brain tumour. Discover how his best-laid plans for treatment worked out.

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  • Annual reunion of neurologists at the Salpêtrière hospital, 1926. Photograph, 1926.
  • Portrait; Mary Broadfoot Walker (1888-1974)
  • Pencil portrait of Sir Henry Head
  • Formal portrait of Sir Henry Head looking right
  • Sir Henry Head sitting in chair in garden
  • Formal portrait of Sir Henry Head
  • Formal portrait of Sir Henry Head, looking left
  • Sir Henry Head and fellow students at Trinity College
  • Sir Henry Head and fellow students at Trinity College
  • Portrait of Wilhelm Erb.
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