MacDonald Critchley

MacDonald Critchley

Macdonald Critchley CBE (born February 2, 1900; died October 15 1997) was a British neurologist. He was former president of the World Federation of Neurology, and the author of over 200 published articles on neurology and 20 books, including "The Parietal Lobes" (1953), "Aphasiology", and biographies of James Parkinson and Sir William Gowers.

Macdonald Critchley was educated in Bristol and received his medical degree there. His professional life centred on "King's College Hospital" and "National Hospital", "Queen Square" "for the Paralysed and Epileptic", London. He was a Registrar in 1927, and he was appointed to the staff as a physician in the following year and later became Dean of the Institute at Queen Square. His influence spread throughout the neurological world by teaching and writings and he later became President of the World Federation of Neurology.

During World War II he was a Consulting Neurologist in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve based at HMS Drake. [http://www.unithistories.com/officers/RNVR_officersC.html]

His contributions to knowledge depended not on technology, but on his power of observation and meticulous dissection of human sensibility and behaviour. The best known of his works were those on aphasia and the parietal lobes. Headache was also one of his many interests. He started a "Headache Clinic" at "King's College Hospital" and was one of the founders of the "British Migraine Trust". He delivered a paper at the "First Migraine Symposium" in 1966 on "Migraine: from Cappadocia to Queen Square", combining his clinical interest with his love of history. Critchley was a handsome and impressive figure, a superb speaker and a lifelong student of the human mind. His last book on the life and career of Hughlings Jackson, jointly with his wife Eileen, has been published posthumously.

Associated eponyms

* "Adie-Critchley syndrome": A syndrome of forced grasping and groping.
* " Klein-Levine- Critchley syndrome": A syndrome of hypersoomnia and hyperphagia
* "Levine-Critchley syndrome": Acanthocytosis Neuroacanthocytosis with neurologic disorders detailed by Edmund Critchley not Macdonald Critchley).

Bibliography

* "The Parietal Lobes". London, Edward Arnold, 1953
* "The enigma of Gertsmann's syndrome". Oxford, Brain, 1966
* "Music and the Brain: Studies in the Neurology of Music" (with R.A.Henson). London, Heinemann, 1977
* "John Hughlings Jackson, Father of English Neurology" (with Eileen A. Critchley). London, 1998


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