PMID: 9528052Apr 7, 1998Paper

Lafora and neuropathology

Revista de neurologia
V Fernández-ArmayorJ L Moreno

Abstract

This article wants to be a memory to the figure and neuro-pathologic work of D. Gonzalo Rodríguez-Lafora. The tediousness of its neurological work allows to divide it in its slopes neurophatologic, neurophysiologic, clinic and therapy. Also, it embraces other topics outside of the field of the neurology, centered fundamentally in the psychiatry. It is without a doubt the facet neuro-histopathologic the one that provides him bigger national and international prestige and it contributes to deepen in the histopathology of the senility, picking up in a definitive way in their work critical valuation of the discoveries histopathological in the senility (1952) their thought in this respect. Mention separated deserves its more important discovery: The inclusions amylaceous in cells ganglionars, in a certain type of epilepsy myoclonic that today takes its name. Other entities like the illness of Wernicke, the hemorrhages hipofisarias, the Parkinson (for scarce months he is not early to Levy in an important discovery), or the alterations of the malaria in the cerebral fabric plows object of their attention, of the work of Lafora highlights its anatomo-pathologics works next to figures as Kraepelin, Alzheimer, Vogt, Openheim or Brodmann....Continue Reading

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