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William Halse Rivers Rivers (1864–1922) and the Sensory Nervous System

Author(s) -

J. Pearce

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

european neurology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.573

H-Index - 77

eISSN - 1421-9913

pISSN - 0014-3022

DOI - 10.1159/000148693

Subject(s) - gratitude , head (geology) , polymath , sensation , sensory system , afferent , tone (literature) , object (grammar) , psychology , anatomy , art , art history , history , neuroscience , medicine , literature , artificial intelligence , geology , computer science , paleontology , social psychology

The polymath William Rivers played an important role in his work with Henry Head in demonstrating the varied, evolving patterns of sensory loss, and epicritic and protopathic sensation, after the section of the superficial ramus of Head's left radial nerve. After a mixed and frustrated army career Rivers devoted his attentions to shell shock and other psychological disturbances which were well received in his time. Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen were among the distinguished patients whose writings revealed Rivers as the revered object of their gratitude.

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