Engelhardt Eliasz, Gomes Marleide da Mota
Instituto de Neurologia Deolindo Couto, Centro para Doença de Alzheimer, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de JaneiroRJ, Brazil.
Instituto de Neurologia Deolindo Couto, Instituto de Psiquiatria, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de JaneiroRJ, Brazil.
Arq Neuropsiquiatr. 2014 Jan;72(1):78-80. doi: 10.1590/0004-282X20130194.
Brown-Séquard, a remarkable medical personality of the 19 th century, was born in a small island of the Indian Ocean. He travelled over the world exerting his skills: a successful physician, and an innovative researcher, with a very ample range of interests. His favored subject was the nervous system. The spinal cord was studied extensively, with novel and important discoveries on the sensory pathways. He identified cases with spinal cord hemisection, and described the clinical presentation corresponding to a syndrome which bears his name (Brown-Séquard syndrome), for which he is best known among neurologists. Regarding the brain, he proposed nine mental and physical functions (organs) related to dynamically interconnected cell clusters, in harmony with the " réseau de cellules anastomosées ", " activités dynamogeniques et inhibitrices ", and " action à distance " concepts. Finally, he is considered by some as the "father" of endocrinology, due to his studies on glands and their secretions.
布朗-塞卡尔是19世纪一位杰出的医学人物，出生于印度洋的一个小岛上。他周游世界施展自己的医术：他是一位成功的医生，也是一位富有创新精神的研究者，兴趣广泛。他最感兴趣的领域是神经系统。他对脊髓进行了广泛研究，在感觉传导通路上有新颖且重要的发现。他识别出脊髓半切病例，并描述了与之对应的一种综合征的临床表现，该综合征以他的名字命名（布朗-塞卡尔综合征），他在神经学家中最为人所知。关于大脑，他提出了与动态互联的细胞簇相关的九种精神和身体功能（器官），这与“吻合细胞网络”“动力和抑制活动”以及“远距离作用”的概念相一致。最后，由于他对腺体及其分泌物的研究，一些人认为他是内分泌学的“奠基人”。
