Brain Vol. 127 No. 12 © Guarantors of Brain 2004; all rights reserved
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Degenerative diseases of the nervous system associated with autonomic failure. By Roger Bannister and D. R. Oppenheimer (From the National Hospital for Nervous Diseases, Queen Square, London, St Mary's Hospital, London and Department of Neuropathology, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford.). Brain 1972: 95; 457474.
Bannister and Oppenheimer make the point that Shy and Drager's 1960 paper on autonomic failure with other neurological disturbances merely drew together the existing literature. Although a first neuro-anatomical account of this disorder was included, Shy and Drager had