MacDonald Critchley

Martínez, Alberto Manuel Hers; Moro, Adriana; Munhoz, Renato P.; Teive, Hélio A. Ghizoni

doi:10.1590/s0004-282x2013000100013

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“…historical aspects of the similarity between sneezing and epilepsy. Citing Owsei Temkin (1902Temkin ( -2002 he mentions Soranus of Ephesus [Temkin, 1945;Kofman, 1964;Kofman, 2012] and prolific writer (c) Edward Liveing author of the treatise On Megrim; Megrim is not only the name of a flatfish (Lepidorhombus whiffiagonis) but also an old English medical term for migraine [Critchley, 1998;Martinez et al, 2013].…”

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Photic Sneeze Reflex

Petroianu¹

2022

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Sternutatio (sneeze) is a poorly understood polysynaptic physiologic reflex phenomenon; even less understood are some variations of the reflex such as the photic sneeze (photo-sternutatory reflex), sneezing induced by bright light, sneezing induced by overeating, sneezing induced by plucking of the eyebrows (palpebro-sternutatory reflex) and paroxysmal sneezing, episodes of intractable sneezing. The present contribution reviews various aspects of the patho-physiology of sneezing, its relationship to singultus (hiccup) and the mechanism of action of various remedia sternutatoria (sneeze inducing agents).The manuscript deals with the history of a previously largely ignored condition and with the people involved in the matter: biographical aspects of little known clinicians and researchers such as Jean Sedan, Harry Shilkret, and Mo Shokeir are presented.

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Photic Sneeze Reflex

Petroianu¹

2022

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“…Macdonald Critchley (1900–1997) was a neurological polymath and one of the founding fathers of modern cognitive and behavioral neurology (Compston, 2010 ; Martinez, Moro, Munhoz, & Teive, 2013 ), authoring such classic texts as The Parietal Lobes and Music and the Brain. He was active chiefly at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN) in London, where his clinical service spanned some six decades and where he was renowned as an astute observer of neurological disease, particularly in the realm of cognitive and language disorders.…”

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The undiscovered syndrome: Macdonald Critchley’s case of semantic dementia

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Semantic dementia is a unique clinicopathological syndrome in the frontotemporal lobar degeneration spectrum. It is characterized by progressive and relatively selective impairment of semantic memory, associated with asymmetric antero-inferior temporal lobe atrophy. Although the syndrome became widely recognized only in the 1980s, descriptions of cases with typical features of semantic dementia have been on record for over a century. Here, we draw attention to a well documented historical case of a patient with features that would have fulfilled current consensus criteria for semantic dementia, as reconstructed from the notes made by her neurologist, Macdonald Critchley, in 1938. This case raises a number of issues concerning the nosology of the semantic dementia syndrome and the potential value of archived case material.

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