García-Albea E
Sección de Neurología, Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid.
Rev Neurol. 1998 Sep;27(157):515-9.
Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora (Madrid 1886-1971) finished his neuropathological training in the Nervenklinik in Munich, together with Alzheimer. In 1910 he took over from Achúcarro in the mental hospital in Washington. In 1911, the year he described amylaceous bodies in myoclonic epilepsy, he had the chance to study a demented person, a former soldier in the American Civil War, who had progressive deterioration of his mental functions. Both clinical and anatomopathological studies were very detailed. He shared the discovery of granulovacuolar degeneration with Simchowitz. It was the eighth case in the literature. The second case (and third American patient) in 1914 was a demented person with goitre, also in Washington mental hospital, who was studied by means of a full series of psychological tests, and the autopsy findings were later described. These studies were not published in English, and perhaps for this reason were not as widely known as they should have been.
贡萨洛·罗德里格斯·拉福拉（1886年生于马德里，1971年去世）与阿尔茨海默一起在慕尼黑的神经精神病医院完成了他的神经病理学培训。1910年，他接替阿楚卡罗，在华盛顿的精神病院工作。1911年，就在他描述肌阵挛性癫痫中的淀粉样体的那一年，他有机会研究一名痴呆患者，一名美国内战退伍军人，其精神功能逐渐衰退。临床和解剖病理学研究都非常详细。他与辛乔维茨共同发现了颗粒空泡变性。这是文献中的第八个病例。1914年的第二个病例（也是第三位美国患者）是一名患有甲状腺肿的痴呆患者，同样在华盛顿精神病院，对其进行了一系列全面的心理测试，并在后来描述了尸检结果。这些研究没有用英文发表，也许正因如此，它们没有得到应有的广泛关注。
