Raymond Delacy Adams
Raymond Delacy Adams | |
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| Born | February 13, 1911 |
| Died | October 18, 2008 (aged 97) |
| Alma mater | University of Oregon |
| Occupation(s) | American Neurologist and Neuropathologist |
Raymond Delacy Adams (February 13, 1911 – October 18, 2008) [1] was an American neurologist, neuropathologist, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology at Harvard Medical School and chief of neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital.[2] Along with neurologist Maurice Victor, Adams was the author of Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology, the 12th edition of which appeared, 50 years after the original.[3]
Born near Portland, Oregon, Adams was the son of William Henry Adams and Eva Mabel Morriss.[2] He graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Psychology. He received his M.D. from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1936.[4] Adams became chief of neurology at Massachusetts General in 1951 retiring in 1977. Adams had an encyclopedic knowledge of adult neurology, pediatric neurology, and neuropathology and is widely regarded as a pre-eminent neurologist of the mid-20th century. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1955.[5] He helped found the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation.
Writing together with the founder of the neuropathology lab at the Massachusetts General Hospital Charles S. Kubik, Adams wrote clinico-pathological papers, one in 1946 describing occlusion of the basilar artery,[6] and another in 1952 comparing and contrasting the demyelinating diseases including acute and chronic multiple sclerosis.[7] In 1949, together with Joseph Michael Foley he described negative myoclonus[8] and in 1953 they coined the term asterixis.[9] In 1959, Adams and colleagues first described central pontine myelinolysis,[10] a disease stripping the myelin insulation from axons within the brain, but distinct from multiple sclerosis. Together with the Australian neurologist James Waldo Lance he described posthypoxic myoclonus, later called Lance-Adams syndrome.[11] Adams, in collaboration with Canadian neurologist Dr. C. Miller Fisher, made contributions to the field of cerebrovascular disease, the syndrome of "transient global amnesia" in 1964,[12] and in 1965 he published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine describing the syndrome of "normal pressure hydrocephalus".[13] In 1964 he clinically and pathologically distinguished an atypical Parkinsonian syndrome, striato-nigral degeneration,[14] now considered an α-synucleinopathy under the umbrella term multiple system atrophy. His 1965 paper with Drs. M. Victor and M. Cole[15] describing the effects on the brain of liver failure and of porto-systemic shunting of venous intestinal blood around the liver has been cited over 500 times in the medical literature.[16]
Adams died in Boston of complications from congestive heart failure, aged 97.[17]
References
[edit]- ^ "Raymond D Adams". Social Security Death Index. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
- ^ a b "Raymond Delacy Adams". Memorial Minutes. Harvard Medical School Office for Faculty Affairs. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
- ^ Ropper, Allan H.; Samuels, Martin A.; Klein, Joshua P.; Prasad, Sashank (May 11, 2023). Adams and Victor's Principles of Neurology (12 ed.). USA: McGraw-Hill Education. p. 5429. ISBN 978-1264264520. Retrieved 27 March 2024.
- ^ Stump, Elizabeth (November 6, 2008). "Leader of Modern Neurology Raymond D. Adams, MD, Dies at 97". Neurology Today. 8 (21): 3–4. doi:10.1097/01.NT.0000342280.52429.85. S2CID 58755768.
- ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
- ^ Kubik, CS; Adams, RD (1946). "Occlusion of the basilar artery - A clinical and pathological study". Brain. 69 (2): 73–121. doi:10.1093/brain/69.2.73. PMID 20274363.
- ^ Adams, RD; Kubik, CS (1952). "The morbid anatomy of the demyelinative disease". The American Journal of Medicine. 12 (5): 510–546. doi:10.1016/0002-9343(52)90234-9. PMID 14933429.
- ^ Adams RD, Foley JM. "The neurological changes in the more common types of severe liver disease". Trans American Neurology Association 1949; 74: 217–19
- ^ Adams RD, Foley JM. "The neurological disorder associated with liver disease". In: Merritt HH, Hare C, eds. Metabolic and Toxic Diseases of the Nervous System (Res Publ Assoc Res Nerv Ment Dis, Vol 32). Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins 1953: 198–237
- ^ Adams RD, Victor M, Mancall EL (1959). "Central pontine myelinolysis: a hitherto undescribed disease occurring in alcoholic and malnourished patients". AMA Arch Neurol Psychiatry. 81 (2): 154–72. doi:10.1001/archneurpsyc.1959.02340140020004. PMID 13616772.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Lance, JW; Adams, RD (1963). "The syndrome of intention or action myoclonus as a sequel to hypoxic encephalopathy". Brain. 86: 111–136. doi:10.1093/brain/86.1.111. PMID 13928398.
- ^ Fisher, CM; Adams, RD (1964). "Transient Global Amnesia". Acta Neurologica Scandinavica Supplementum. 40 (9): SUPPL 9:1-83. PMID 14198929.
- ^ Adams, RD; Fisher, CM; Hakim, S; Ojemann, RG; Sweet, WH (1965). "Symptomatic Occult Hydrocephalus with Normal Cerebrospinal-Fluid Pressure — A Treatable Syndrome". New England Journal of Medicine. 273: 117–126. doi:10.1056/NEJM196507152730301. PMID 14303656.
- ^ Adams, RD; van Bogaert, L; vander Eecken, H (1964). "Striato-nigral degeneration". Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology. 23: 584–608. PMID 14219099.
- ^ Victor, M; Adams, RD; Cole, M (1965). "The acquired (non-Wilsonian) type of chronic hepatocerebral degeneration". Medicine. 44 (5): 345–396. doi:10.1097/00005792-196509000-00001. PMID 5318075.
- ^ Victor, M; Adams, RD; Cole, M (1965). "The acquired (non-Wilsonian) type of chronic hepatocerebral degeneration". Medicine. 44 (5): 345–396. doi:10.1097/00005792-196509000-00001. PMID 5318075. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
- ^ Marquard, Bryan (October 26, 2008). "Dr. Raymond D. Adams, 97; Mass. General neurology chief coauthored textbook". The Boston Globe. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
Further reading
[edit]- Laureno, Robert (2009). Raymond Adams: A Life of Mind and Muscle, Oxford University Press
