The Conception and Embarrassing Birth of an Eponym

Landau, William M.

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William M. Landau M.D.⁵

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Many years ago I received a courteous and deferential letter from a British pediatric neurologist who explained that there had been controversy in his hospital regarding interpretation of a test of motor coordination in infants called the Landau reflex, and would I settle the question? Although I was tempted to assume the role of authoritarian Herr Professor, I responded demurely that I must plead innocent because this reflex was invented and reported by a Berlin pediatrician the year before I was born. I have been embarrassed by that eponym ever since.

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Department of Neurology and Neurological Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA
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Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, Hospital de Santa Maria, 1600, Lisboa, Portugal
Isabel Pavão Martins
Laboratório de Estudos de Linguagem, Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz, Hospital de Santa Maria, 1600, Lisboa, Portugal
Alexandre Castro-Caldas
Dept. of Neurologie, Academic Hospital Rotterdam, Dijkzigt, 40 dr. Molewaterplein, 3015 CD, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Hugo R. van Dongen
Service de Neurologie Pediatrique, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Avenue Hippocrate 10, UCL 10/1303, 1200, Bruxelles, Belgium
Anne van Hout

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Landau, W.M. (1991). The Conception and Embarrassing Birth of an Eponym. In: Martins, I.P., Castro-Caldas, A., van Dongen, H.R., van Hout, A. (eds) Acquired Aphasia in Children. NATO ASI Series, vol 60. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3582-5_20

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