Open AccessJoseph Godwin Greenfield: The father of neuropathology (1884-1958)
Author(s) -
Kalyan B Bhattacharyya,
Saurabh Rai
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
annals of indian academy of neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.427
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1998-3549
pISSN - 0972-2327
DOI - 10.4103/0972-2327.152087
Subject(s) - neuropathology , medicine , subacute combined degeneration , blindness , spinal cord , disease , pathology , psychiatry , optometry
The systematic study of neuropathology was initiated by Godwin Greenfield in the early part of the 20(th) century. He worked at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London for the major period of his life and worked on various subjects like cerebrospinal fluid, intracranial tumours, cerebellar ataxias, dystrophia myotonica, disseminated sclerosis, subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord, and the like. After his retirement he visited the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness in Bethesda, Maryland, USA, from time to time and there he died suddenly from myocardial infarction.