Article ID: CBB571180722

The Neurological Study Unit: “A Combined Attack on a Single Problem from Many Angles” (2021)

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In the 1920s, neurology was a fledgling discipline. Various attempts were made to establish programs relating to neurological care and research. One such initiative was the Neurological Study Unit (NSU) at the Yale School of Medicine. My aim is to chronicle the early years of the NSU (1924–40): the motivations for establishing the unit, its structure, its challenges, and its evolution. I have studied all documents related to the NSU at Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library. The NSU was heralded as a “combined attack on a single problem from many angles.” It was slow to develop, however, and had a number of missing elements. While some of this may have been due to a lack of funds and the absence of a dedicated neurologist, it was also the result of a failure to conceptualize a neurological unit, the slow evolution-into-existence of a nascent and fledgling medical discipline, growing pains and frictions within the leadership, a university-based rather than a hospital-based model of operation, and turf wars between neurology and allied disciplines.

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Authors & Contributors
Lampard, Robert
Hogan, David
Wright, James R., Jr.
Stahnisch, Frank W.
Allen, Harry
Young-jeon Shin
Concepts
Universities and colleges
Medical education and teaching
Medical schools
Discipline formation
Hospitals and clinics
Physicians; doctors
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
19th century
Early modern
Places
Canada
United States
Spain
New Zealand
Europe
China
Institutions
University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine
Royal Commission on Health Services (Canada)
Rockefeller Foundation
Yale University
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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