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Brain 2005 128(3):690-692; doi:10.1093/brain/awh434
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Book review

THE FIRST FOUR MINUTES: 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

By Roger Bannister 2004. Stroud: Sutton Publishing Price £7.99. ISBN 0-75093-530-8

A NEUROLOGIST'S TALE

By Edmund Critchley

2001. Spennymoor: Memoir Club Price

Price £17.50. ISBN 1-84104-035-5

STRIVING TOWARDS ELEGANCE

By Bryan Ashworth

2004. Spennymoor: The Memoir Club

Price £14.95. ISBN 1-84104-087-8

NEUROLOGICAL COSMOLOGY

By William Gooddy

2000. London: Minerva Press

Price £00.00. ISBN 0-75411-287-X

NINDS AT 50

By Lewis Rowland

2003. New York: Demos

Price $44.95. Pp. 346. ISBN 1-888799-71-4

AN ODYSSEYTHROUGH THEBRAIN, BEHAVIOR AND THE MIND

By Case H. Vanderwolf

2003. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers

Price 92 00{euro}. ISBN 1-4020-7345-3

Michael Trimble

Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK Email: M.Trimble@ion.ucl.ac.uk

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The tales neurologists tell


Neuroscientists are well known for dedicating their life-spun thoughts and experiences to a wider public in twilight-timed autobiographical epilogues; on my shelves I see earlier generations represented by the writings of such as Sir Charles Sherrington, Wilder Penfield and Macdonald Critchley—all valuable in their way for allowing us to evaluate not only the individual's personal contribution to the discipline, but also giving the epigonic historian an insight into what was happening then, and how it may have come about. We all have at least that one story book in us, and the urge of our colleagues to put it down and publish memoirs is evidently not diminished. Is this driven by a narcissistic need to reflect upon an ageing face in a changing place, or a requirement to get it right; to correct any misperceptions that might have crept into the minds of others about what a life's work has . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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