History of Stroke

Julien Bogousslavsky, a former full professor of neurology and head of university department of neurology in Switzerland, now chairs the Center for brain and nervous system disorders of the Swiss Medical Network, along with his position of Chief editor of European Neurology, the third oldest neurological journal. He was founder of the European Stroke Conference and of the journal Cerebrovascular Diseases along with Michael Hennerici, and was the millenium president of the International Stroke Society. He has published over 700 scientific papers and books, and is also the author of works and brain and creativity, writers such as Marcel Proust or Blaise Cendrars, Surrealism, and the relationships between avant-garde poets and artists.. Maurizio Paciaroni, having completed his 4-year university specialization course in Neurology, at the University of Perugia in Italy, went on to became a Research Fellow in the field of vascular neurology at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. Subsequently, he participated in NASCET (North American Symptomatic Carotid Endarterectomy Trial) at the Robarts Research Institute, the University of Western Ontario, London Ontario, Canada. Currently, he is the team leader of the Stroke Unit at the University of Perugia Hospital, Italy. He has published more than 250 research papers, in both English and Italian, and has co-authored several chapters and texts on stroke.. Michael G. Hennerici is professor emeritus and former chairman of the department of neurology as well as medical director of the Mannheim Hospital at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Along with Julien Bogousslavsky (Switzerland) he was founder and chairman of the European Stroke Conference (ESC) in 1990 (Düsseldorf, Germany) and the journal Cerebrovascular Diseases (Honorary Editor and Founding Editor in Chief) for more than a quarter of a century. He has published more than 850 scientific papers and books on all aspects of research in basic neurophysiology as well as imaging principles of the brain and its vasculature (Ultrasound, CT and MRI), all aspects of Cerebrovascular Diseases (eg. diagnosis, management and treatment in exploratory pilot and large clinical trials) and pioneer studies of the Natural History of Asymptomatic Carotid Disease in particular (1987). Following his primary education in musical arts (Organist diploma) and numerous concerts given, he later became interested in brain diseases of musicians and painting artists as well as their relationships to stroke. This also follows the spirits of education at the Department of Neurology and Neurophysiology in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany during his student’s education in the early 1970s.. Laurent Tatu is professor of anatomy and neurologist. He is the coordinator of the Department of Anatomy at the University of Franche-Comté (France) and head of the Neuromuscular Diseases Department at Besançon University Hospital. His main research topics are vascular anatomy of the brain and morphological and functional muscle anatomy applied to botulinum toxin therapy for neurological diseases. He is an associate editor of the journals “European Neurology” and “Case Reports in Neurology”. With a longstanding interest in history, he is the author of works on the history of medicine and the history of the First World War. With Julien Bogousslavsky, he has published numerous articles on the history of medicine and three books on neuropsychiatry in the First World War (2012), Blaise Cendrars (2015) and Gustave Roussy (2023).