Tics, tremors and trusses

Tics, tremors and trusses

• Tics, tremors and trusses

Parkinsonism

• Parkinsonism

• Tremor

• Chorea

• Dystonia

• Myoclonus

• Tics

• Stereotypies

• Restless legs

Tremor and palpitations

• Tremor and palpitations

• Chorea and convulsions

Galen, Sylvius and others distinguished between action tremor and rest tremor

• Galen, Sylvius and others distinguished between action tremor and rest tremor

Referred to a wide range of phenomena, including complex stereotyped movements such as St Vitus’ dance

• Referred to a wide range of phenomena, including complex stereotyped movements such as St Vitus’ dance

Referred to a wide range of phenomena, including complex stereotyped movements such as St Vitus’ dance

• Referred to a wide range of phenomena, including complex stereotyped movements such as St Vitus’ dance

• 1624 born into Dorset landed gentry

• 1642 Magdalen Hall, Oxford, then parliamentary army

• 1648 Oxford BM; elected a fellow of All Souls

• 1655 resigned from All Souls; later attended Montpellier

• 1663 licensed by Royal College of Physicians

• 1676 Cambridge MD; Pembroke Hall where his eldest son was by then an undergraduate.

Local boy, born on a farm in Great Bedwyn

• Local boy, born on a farm in Great Bedwyn

• Moved to North Hinksey then Oxford

• Initially consulted in the Abingdon market place

• “Father of neuroscience”

• Major contributions to neuroanatomy

• Many original descriptions of disorders such as restless legs syndrome, narcolepsy, achalasia of the oesophagus etc

• Popgun plot (1794) allegedly to kill King George III with a poison dart

“If I have seen further it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants”

• “If I have seen further it is because I am standing on the shoulders of giants”

• Isaac Newton

“If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.”

• “If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.”

• Hal Abelson