Editorial
This issue ofBrain features a review by Michael Zandi ofEncephalitis Lethargica: The Mind and Brain Virus by Paul Bernard Foley, which, at over 1000 pages, must be the most comprehensive account to date of the mysterious epidemic that emerged during World War I. This review appears almost exactly 100 years after an article inBrain entitled ‘Lethargic encephalitis; its sequelæ and morbid anatomy’ by E. Farquhar Buzzard and J. Godwin Greenfield (although included in Volume 42, the final issue was delayed until January 1920). The histopathological examination in five of the cases described by Buzzard and Greenfield highlights the fr equent presence of vascular congestion, neuronophagy and gliosis, but the authors refrain from speculating about the aetiology.
Source: Brain - Category: Neurology Source Type: research