The Romanian School of Neurology influenced a great share of

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

n and foreign neurologists, descending from a group of

Gheorghe Marinescu Gheorghe Marinescu (; 28 February 1863 – 15 May 1938) was a Romanian neurologist, founder of the Romanian School of Neurology. History After attending the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Bucharest, Marinescu received most of his medi ...

's co-workers at the Neurological Department of the Colentina Hospital at the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ...

. One can therefore also speak of Marinescu's School of Neurology. Marinescu's closest collaborators were Ion Minea (with contributions to neuroinfections), Anghel Radovici (with whom Marinescu described the ''kinn reflex'', author of the monograph ''La Syphilis nerveuse'', 1928), Nicolae Ionescu-Sisești (who was his successor as head of the department, author of the monographs ''Tumeurs Médullaires'', 1929, ''Syringobulbie'', 1932), State Drăgănescu (author of the book ''Lichidul cefalo-rahidian'' (The Cerebrospinal Fluid), 1932 and of the monograph ''Encefalite Virotice Umane'' (Human Viral Encephalitis, 1962, with Arcadie Petrescu), Oskar Sager (Head of the department after the death oh N. Ionescu-Siseşti in 1954, author of studies on the physiology of the

thalamus The thalamus (from Greek θάλαμος, "chamber") is a large mass of gray matter located in the dorsal part of the diencephalon (a division of the forebrain). Nerve fibers project out of the thalamus to the cerebral cortex in all directions, ...

with J. G. Dusser de Barenne),

Arthur Kreindler Arthur Kreindler (15 May 1900 – 28 May 1988) was a Romanian neurologist of Jewish origin, academic, professor of neurology at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, and director of the Institute of Neurology Research ...

(co-author of the Marinescu's monograph ''Les Reflexes Conditionnelles'', 1935, author of the monographs ''Epilepsia'' (Epilepsy), 1955, ''La Physiologie et Physiopathologie du cervelet'', 1958, with Mircea Steriade, ''Anatomo-fiziologia clinică a sistemului nervos central'' (Clinical anatomo-physiology of the central nervous system), 1957, with Vlad Voiculescu), ''Afazia'' (

Aphasia Aphasia is an inability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in t ...

, 1962, with Alexandru Fradis), Emmerich Façon (contributions to clinical neurology and neuroinfections). Starting from 1954, Arthur Kreindler, in his double position as director of the Institute of Neurology of the

Romanian Academy The Romanian Academy ( ro, Academia Română ) is a cultural forum founded in Bucharest, Romania, in 1866. It covers the scientific, artistic and literary domains. The academy has 181 active members who are elected for life. According to its byl ...

and head of the post-graduate chair of Neurology at the University of Bucharest, surrounded himself with personalities like State Drăgănescu, Theodor Horneţ and

Vlad Voiculescu Vlad Vasile Voiculescu (born 6 September 1983) is a Romanian politician and former Romanian Minister of Health in the Cîțu Cabinet (affiliated with the Freedom, Unity and Solidarity Party, PLUS) whose term lasted from 23 December 2020 until h ...

. The chair organized post-graduate specialization in

neurology Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal ...

, training many neurologists all over the country. The central themes of clinical research were

epilepsy Epilepsy is a group of non-communicable neurological disorders characterized by recurrent epileptic seizures. Epileptic seizures can vary from brief and nearly undetectable periods to long periods of vigorous shaking due to abnormal electrica ...

, cerebro-vascular diseases,

viral encephalitis Viral encephalitis is inflammation of the brain parenchyma, called encephalitis, by a virus. The different forms of viral encephalitis are called viral encephalitides. It is the most common type of encephalitis and often occurs with viral meningiti ...

aphasia Aphasia is an inability to comprehend or formulate language because of damage to specific brain regions. The major causes are stroke and head trauma; prevalence is hard to determine but aphasia due to stroke is estimated to be 0.1–0.4% in t ...

. Basic research dealt especially with states of consciousness, physiology of the thalamus, conditioned reflexes a.s.o. From the initial anatomo-clinical orientation, Romanian neurology evolved to a neurophysiological one, involving such modern topics as

neurochemistry Neurochemistry is the study of chemicals, including neurotransmitters and other molecules such as psychopharmaceuticals and neuropeptides, that control and influence the physiology of the nervous system. This particular field within neuroscience ...

neurogenetics Neurogenetics studies the role of genetics in the development and function of the nervous system. It considers neural characteristics as phenotypes (i.e. manifestations, measurable or not, of the genetic make-up of an individual), and is mainly bas ...

and neuropsychology. The following neurologists from the next generation should be quoted: Mihai Ioan Botez, Victor Ionăşescu,

Ion N. Petrovici Ion N. Petrovici (August 19, 1929 in Ploiești, Romania – February 19, 2021) was a German neurologist, professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Cologne. Petrovici completed his secondary education in 1947 at his native city' ...

, Jean-Jaques Askenasy and Mircea Steriade. Presently the main representative of Marinescu's school of neurology in Romania is

Constantin Popa Constantin Popa ( he, קונסטנטין פופה; born February 18, 1971) is a Romanian-Israeli professional basketball coach and former player. Biography Popa played for Dinamo Bucharest in his native Romania before going overseas to play colle ...

, head of the neurological department at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy and director of the institute for cerebrovascular diseases in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

Bibliography

* A. Kreindler (ed.), ''Epilepsia. Cercetări clinice și experimentale'', Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne'', 1955 {{authority control Neurology organizations Medical schools in Romania