The International Child Neurology Association (ICNA) invites you to join our new monthly initiative entitled ‘Neurology through Art and Time’ which will be launched in Feb. 2023. We aim to review and discuss a particular subject or theme in Neurology (Medicine) as depicted through an artistic medium. We invite you to use your imagination and contribute your insights into how great Art has illuminated and paralleled the emerging concepts, the complex patterns and the thematic evolution of Medicine through the ages. One could choose a particular theme (e.g. neurodisability, muscular dystrophy, dystonia, stroke, hysteria, addiction, epilepsy, etc.) and have illustrative examples from art in multiple media. Alternatively, one could choose a single piece of art and delve into its meaning and significance in the context of a specific timepoint in history.

We are looking for works of art that highlight a seminal idea or moment in the history of Neurology. Please feel free to consider other possible compositions or scenarios. Artwork portraying the essence and creativity of Medicine and Science through paintings, sculptures, architecture, archeology, music, cinema, and poetry/prose are within our scope.

If you know someone who would be an excellent speaker on the Neurology Through Art & Time (NTAT) platform, or if you would like to nominate yourself, we would like to hear from you. Please visit https://icnapedia.org/s/ntat for more details

With sincerest gratitude & Best wishes for the New Year
The Neurology Through Art and Time Team

Neurology of the Musical Masters; Classical and Romance Periods

Phillip L. Pearl, MD

Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology,
Boston Children's Hospital; William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Neurology of the musical masters: Impressionist Period and 20 th Century

Phillip L Pearl MD

Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology,
Boston Children's Hospital; William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Neurology of the musical masters: Great American Song book

Phillip L Pearl MD

Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology,
Boston Children's Hospital; William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

Neurology of the musical masters: Jazz genre

Phillip L. Pearl, MD

Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology,
Boston Children's Hospital;
William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

The neurology of creativity – at the keyboard

Phillip L Pearl, MD

Director of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology,
Boston Children's Hospital; William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School

The Extensor Plantar Response through Art and Time

Dr Biju Hameed FRCPH PhD 

Neuroanatomical art and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci

Ingrid Tein BSc, MD, FRCP

Neuroanatomical Art and Inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci Part II

Ingrid Tein BSc, MD, FRCP

Artistic explorations of thought

Dr Audrius V Plioplys
Canadian artist, Neurologist, Neuroscientist

The effects of music on early brain development

Professor Laurel Trainor
Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behaviour
McMaster University

Neurology through period paintings

Prof. Dr. Haluk Topaloğlu
Faculty member in the Department of Pediatrics at Yeditepe
University in İstanbul.

Cerebral Palsy in Art

Dr. Bernard Dan
Child neurologist and rehabilitation physician,
Inkendaal Rehabilitation Hospital, Belgium.

Insight into children’s neurological related issues through their drawings – how scientific is it?

Jo Wilmshurst
Head of Paediatric Neurology Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital University of Cape Town

Children’s art in the diagnosis of headache and art therapy in children and adolescents with epilepsy

Professor Carl Stafstrom
Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics Lederer Endowed Chair in Pediatric Epilepsy Haller Professor of Neurological Science Director of the Division of Pediatric Neurology at Johns Hopkins

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Dr. Coulter retired from Boston Children’s Hospital in 2023, where he was a senior staff neurologist and associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. He had previously been the chief of child neurology at Boston City Hospital. His professional career focused primarily on neurodevelopmental disabilities, especially epilepsy and intellectual disability (ID). He wrote the first report of benign neonatal sleep myoclonus in 1982. He served as President of the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) in 2004-5 and coauthored the current definition of ID. He also served on the Multi-Society Task Force that defined the medical aspects of the persistent vegetative state. He completed fellowships in bioethics and hospital chaplaincy and served on various ethics committees for many years. He wrote the chapter on ethics in child neurology for three editions of Swaiman’s Pediatric Neurology: Principles and Practice. He co-edited the Journal of Religion, Disability and Health from 1999-2010. Dr. Coulter received the National Humanism in Medicine Award from the U.S. Child Neurology Society in 2017 and the National Dybwad Humanitarian Award from AAIDD in 2019. In 2021 ICNA published the book, Namaste: Humanism in Child Neurology, which Dr. Coulter co-edited with Dr. Alcy Torres. Dr. Coulter has written poems all of his life and has published six books of poems on a variety of topics. He will read some of his poems and describe his poetic journey during his presentation today.

Disability, Doctoring and Patient Care: Poems from a Life in Medicine

Professor David L Coulter M D
Senior Staff Neurologist, Associate Professor of Neurology (retired), Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.

Neurology through Art & Time Team

Ingrid Tein MD FRCP(C)(Chair),
Director, Neurometabolic Clinic and Research Laboratory, Division of Neurology
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Pediatrics, Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
Senior Associate Scientist Emeritus, Genetics and Genome Biology Program
The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Haluk Topaloglu MD (Co-Chair)
Professor of Pediatrics and Child Neurology
Executive Associate Editor, Neuromuscular Disorders
Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

Bernard Dan MD,
Professor of Neurophysiology and Developmental Neurology
Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Editor-in-Chief of Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology

Biju Hameed FRCPCH PhD,
Consultant in Pediatric Neurology & Neurodisability
Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
Editor-in-Chief, ICNApedia

Phillip Pearl MD,
Director Of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology
William G. Lennox Chair and Professor of Neurology, Dept. of Neurology
Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA

Jo Wilmshurst MD,
Professor and Head of Pediatric Neurology
Director, African Pediatric Fellowship Programme
Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital
University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Past President, The International Child Neurology Association

Viraj Sanghi MD,
Senior Consultant, Pediatric Neurology
SRCC Children’s Hospital,
KEM Hospital and Seth GS Medical College, Mumbai, India

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