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Sanger Brown
American neuropsychiatrist, 1852-1928.
Associated eponyms:
Brown's ataxia (Sanger Brown)
Hereditary ataxia accompanied by numerous ophthalmic abnormalities and pathologic changes in several tracts of the spinal cord.
Marie's ataxia
A hereditary disease of the nervous system, with cerebellar ataxia caused by bilateral cortical atrophy of the cerebellum.
Biography:
While working with professor Edward Albert Schafer (1850-1935) at University College Hospital, London, Sanger Brown showed for the first time conclusive proof that the occipital lobe was the centre for vision in animals. Following graduation from the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1880, he had worked at the hospital for the insane, Ward’s Island, New York, and then at the Bloomingdale Asylum. After his return to the U.S. he was appointed professor of clinical neurology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Illinois, and later became owner and director of the Kenilworth Sanatorium.
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