Ion N. Petrovici
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neurologist
Neurology
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, professor of neurology
Neurology
Neurology is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central, peripheral, and autonomic nervous systems, including their coverings, blood vessels, and all effector tissue,...
and psychiatry
Psychiatry
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at the University of Cologne
University of Cologne
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.
After studying at the Bucharest Faculty of Medicine
Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy
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, he received an MD degree from the University of Bucharest
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. He trained in neurology under Arthur Kreindler and Vlad Voiculescu at the Department of Clinical Neurology of the Institute for Neurological Research of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. In 1959, he became a specialist in neurology.
From 1964 to 1969 he held the position of chief of the service of pre-operative diagnosis at the Clinic of Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery
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of the Bucharest University under Constantin Arseni. With Arseni and Frank Nass, Petrovici authored Vascular Diseases of the Brain and of the Spinal Cord in 1965.
In 1969, he emigrated to Germany
Germany
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and began his activity in Cologne
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at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
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under Klaus-Joachim Zülch. Despite his time consuming clinical responsibilities during this period, he began to apply his research training to neurologic problems. He was habilitated into academic career (venia legendi) in 1978 and in 1983 became professor of neurology and psychiatry at the University of Cologne
University of Cologne
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. In 1985 he was appointed director of the Department of Neurology at Merheim Hospital, University of Cologne. He held the until his 1994 retirement.
Petrovici published numerous papers on cerebrovascular disease
Cerebrovascular disease
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, seizure
Seizure
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disorders, therapy of the malignant brain tumours, localisation theory of the higher brain functions, hemispheric
Cerebral hemisphere
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specialisation
Lateralization of brain function
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and interhemispheric transfer of learning
Transfer of learning
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, the minor cerebral hemisphere and language. In 1962 he described the Alternating Asphygmo-Pyramidal Syndrome in occlusions of the carotid arteries.
Petrovici is a member of numerous scientific societies, such as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Klinische Neurophysiologie, Società Italiana di Neurologia, European Society of Neurology, New York Academy of Sciences
New York Academy of Sciences
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; he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine
Royal Society of Medicine
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, and, since 1994, an honorary member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.
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