Romanian School of Neurology

The Romanian School of Neurology influenced a great share of Romanian and foreign neurologists, descending from a group of Gheorghe Marinescu's co-workers at the Neurological Department of the Colentina Hospital [ro] at the University of Bucharest. One can therefore also speak of Marinescu's School of Neurology.

Marinescu's closest collaborators were Ion Minea (with contributions to neuroinfections), Anghel Radovici [ro] (with whom Marinescu described the kinn reflex, author of the monograph La Syphilis nerveuse, 1928), Nicolae Ionescu-Sisești [ro] (who was his successor as head of the department, author of the monographs Tumeurs Médullaires, 1929, Syringobulbie, 1932), State Drăgănescu [ro] (author of the book Lichidul cefalo-rahidian (The Cerebrospinal Fluid), 1932 and of the monograph Encefalite Virotice Umane (Human Viral Encephalitis, 1962, with Arcadie Petrescu), Oscar Sager [ro] (Head of the department after the death of Ionescu-Sisești in 1954, author of studies on the physiology of the thalamus with J. G. Dusser de Barenne), Arthur Kreindler (co-author of the Marinescu's monograph Les Reflexes Conditionnelles, 1935, author of the monographs Epilepsia (Epilepsy), 1955, La Physiologie et Physiopathologie du cervelet, 1958, with Mircea Steriade, Anatomo-fiziologia clinică a sistemului nervos central (Clinical anatomo-physiology of the central nervous system), 1957, with Vlad Voiculescu), Afazia (Aphasia, 1962, with Alexandru Fradis), Emmerich Façon (contributions to clinical neurology and neuroinfections).^{[citation needed]}

Starting from 1954, Arthur Kreindler, in his double position as director of the Institute of Neurology of the Romanian Academy and head of the post-graduate chair of Neurology at the University of Bucharest, surrounded himself with personalities such as State Drăgănescu, Theodor Horneț, and Vlad Voiculescu. The chair organized post-graduate specialization in neurology, training many neurologists all over the country.

The central themes of clinical research were epilepsy, cerebro-vascular diseases, viral encephalitis, and aphasia. Basic research dealt especially with states of consciousness, physiology of the thalamus, conditioned reflexes, and so on. From the initial anatomo-clinical orientation, Romanian neurology evolved to a neurophysiological one, involving such modern topics as neurochemistry, neurogenetics, and neuropsychology.

The following neurologists from the next generation should be quoted: Mihai Ioan Botez, Victor Ionășescu, Ion N. Petrovici, Jean-Jacques Askenasy, and Mircea Steriade.

Presently the main representative of Marinescu's school of neurology in Romania is Constantin Popa [ro], head of the neurological department at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy and director of the institute for cerebrovascular diseases in Bucharest.