| Born in England, Jackson first
became interested in neurology when he became a staff member of the National
Hospital Queen’s Square. There began his first stimulation in the study
of seizures. He gained importance, not on his description of a certain
seizure pattern "Jacksonian Epilepsy," but on his formulation of concepts
even principles that explain paroxysmal seizures of all types. He also
postulated truly evolutionary levels of the sensori-motor mechanisms-the
lowest spinal cord, medulla and pons, the middle, the rolandic region,
and the highest level, the prefrontal lobes. As a neurologist, he published
some 300 papers mostly in obscure journals. |