Aristides Leão: a birth centennial homage with comments on his spreading depression

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Eliasz Engelhardt¹  Marleide Da Mota Gomes¹ 

关键词: Aristides Leão;    neurophysiology;    spreading depression;    migraine;    cerebrovascular diseases;    seizures;    Aristides Leão;    neurofisiologia;    depressão alastrante;    enxaqueca;    doenças cerebrovasculares;    epilepsia;   

DOI  :  10.1590/0004-282X20150045

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

The year of 2014 is the birth centenary of Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão (1914-1993), and also marks seventy years of the publication of his discovery of the novel electrophysiological phenomenon, named by him “spreading depression” (SD), soon designated “Leão’s wave” or “Leão’s spreading depression”. This was a remarkable scientific milestone, and the author must be celebrated for this achievement, as the studies he triggered proceeded worldwide, with new concepts, as spreading depolarization, until the present days. Robust experimental and clinical evidence emerged to suggest that these and related electrophysiological phenomena are involved in the mechanisms of migraine aura, acute cerebrovascular diseases, traumatic brain injury, transient global amnesia, epileptic seizures, and their pathophysiological characteristics come to offer new therapeutic perspectives. He was a remarkable and complex personality, and the authors remit the readers to a paper where his personal life is contemplated.

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