Derek Ernst Denny-Brown

After earning bachelors degrees in medicine and surgery from Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand, Derek Ernest Denny-Brown in 1924 received a Beit Fellowship to study in the laboratory of Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (1857-1952) at Oxford.

While at Oxford, working under rather poor conditions, Denny-Brown observed and defined the distinctive properties of red and white muscles, validated Sherrington’s theoretical concept of the motor unit, and developed the technique of antidromic stimulation for the analysis of motor neurone responses. The fellowship at Oxford culminated in a DPhil degree, the co-authorship of a classic book, Reflex Activity of the Spinal Cord, and 16 scientific papers.

From his fellowship at Oxford, Denny-Brown returned to clinical medicine. In 1928 he became resident medical officer at the National Hospital, Queen Square, London. This was the leading centre of neurology, its staff including Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson (1878-1937), Gordon Morgan Holmes (1876-1965), Sir Charles Symonds, James Stanfield Collier (1870-1935), and Francis Walshe. Denny-Brown served as a lecturer at the National Hospital from 1931 to 1939, and as a registrar at Queen Square and Guy’s Hospital from 1931 to 1935. From 1935 to 1941 he held the positions of assistant physician, National Hospital, and neurologist, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital London.

In 1936 Denny-Brown received a Rockefeller Fellowship to study with John Fulton at Yale University. Here he worked with Fulton and a neurosurgeon, Harry Botterell, studying the effects of ablating portions of the pre-central cerebral cortex in primates. When Denny-Brown returned to England in 1937, he resumed his clinical practice and teaching at the National Hospital, Queen Square.

In 1939 Denny-Brown was offered a professorship at Harvard. Due to the outbreak of World War II, however, he was called to active service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. It was only through the intervention of Winston Churchill that he was able to assume his responsibilities in Boston in 1941. He was called back to service in 1945, when there was a shortage of physicians in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and he was assigned to organise the neurological services in India and Burma. Upon his return to Boston in 1946 he was appointed James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology, a position that he held until his retirement in 1967.

Denny-Brown soon gained a formidable reputation as a teacher, clinician and investigator. In the early 1960s, of 41 departments of neurology in the United States, 19 had chairmen who had received a major part of their training under his direction at the Neurological Unit. When he retired from Boston City Hospital in 1967 he became the James Jackson Putnam Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School. Denny-Brown died of multiple myeloma on April 20, 1981.

• S. Cooper and D. Denny-Brown:
  Responses to rhythmical stimulation of the cerebral cortex, Preliminary communication.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 1926, 100: 251-257.
• S. Cooper, D. Denny-Brown, and Sir Charles Sherrington:
  Reflex fractionation of a muscle.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 1926, 100: 448-462.
• D. Denny-Brown, and E.G.T. Liddell:
  Some observations on the reflex activity of a muscle of the fore-limb (M. Supraspinatus).
  Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology, 1927. 16: 353-371.
  
  
• D. Denny-Brown, and E.G.T. Liddell:
  Observations of the motor twitch and on reflex inhibition of the tendon jerk of M. Supraspinatus.
  Journal of Physiology, 1927, 63:70-79.
• S. Cooper, S., D. Denny-Brown,. and Sir Charles Sherrington:
  Interaction between ipsilateral spinal reflexes acting on the flexor muscles of the hind-limb.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 1927, 101: 262-303.
  
  
• S. Cooper and D. Denny-Brown:
  Responses to stimulation of the motor area of the cerebral cortex.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 1927, 102: 222-236.
  
  
• D. Denny-Brown, and E.G.T. Liddell:
  The stretch reflex as a spinal process.
  Journal of Physiology, l927, 63: l44-l50.
• D. Denny-Brown, and E.G.T.Liddell:
  Extensor reflexes in the fore-limb.
  Journal of Physiology, 1928, 65: 305-326.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  On inhibition as a reflex accompaniment of the tendon jerk and of other forms of active muscular response.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 103: 32l-335, 1928.
• D. Denny-Brown, and Sir Charles Sherrington:
  Subliminal fringe in spinal flexion.
  Journal of Physiology, 1928, 66: 175-180.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The histological features of striped muscle in relation to its functional activity.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 1929, 104: 371-411.
  
  
• D. Denny-Brown
  On the nature of postural reflexes.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 1929, 104: 252-301.
  
  
• D. Denny-Brown, J.C. Eccles, and E.G.T. Liddell:
  Observations on the electrical stimulation of the cerebellar cortex.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 1929, 104: 518-536.
  
  
• S. Cooper and D. Denny-Brown:
  The interaction between two trains of impulses converging on the same motoneurone.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 1929, 105: 363-371.
  
  
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Analysis of spinal reflexes.
  British Medical Journal, 1931, 1: 228-229.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Theoretical deductions from the physiology of the cerebral cortex.
  Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology, London, 1932, 13: 52-67,
  
  
• R.S. Creed, D. Denny-Brown, J.C. Eccles, E.G.T. Liddell,., and C. S. Sherrington:
  Reflex Activity of the Spinal Cord.
  Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1932.
• D. Denny-Brown, S. Creed, J. J. Eccles, and E. G. T. Liddell:
  Reflex Activity of the Spinal Cord.
  Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1932.
• D. Denny-Brown and E. G. Robertson:
  The physiology of micturition.
  Brain, Oxford, 1933, 56: 149-190.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The pathology of sciatica.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, 1933: 26:147-151.
  
  
• D. Denny-Brown, and E. Robertson:
  Graeme, On the physiology of micturition.
  Brain, Oxford, 1933, 56: 149-190.
• D. Denny-Brown, and E. Robertson:
  Graeme, The state of the bladder and its sphincters in complete transverse lesions of the spinal cord and cauda equina.
  Brain, Oxford, 1933, 56: 397-463.
• D. Denny-Brown and E. Robertson.
  Graeme, Observations on records of local epileptic convulsions.
  Journal of Neurology and Psychopathology, London, 1934, 15:97-136.
• D. Denny-Brown, J.B. Gaylor, and V. Uprus:
  Note on the nature of the motor discharge in shivering.
  Brain, Oxford, 1935, 58:233-237.
• D. Denny-Brown, and E. Robertson:
  Graeme, An investigation of the nervous control of defaecation.
  Brain, Oxford, 1935, 58:256-310.
• H. Cairns and D. Denny-Brown
  Management of intracranial tumour.
  British Medical Journal, 1935, 2: 1162-1163.
• D. Denny-Brown
  Nervous disturbances of the vesical sphincter.
  New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1936, 215: 647-652.
• D. Denny-Brown, and Alex E Roche:
  The frequency of micturition in the adult.
  Transactions of the Hunterian Society, 1936-37.
• D. Denny-Brown, and J.B. Pennybacker:
  Fibrillation and fasciculation in voluntary muscle.
  Brain, Oxford, 1938, 61: 311-334.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The electro-encephalogram in epilepsy. A review.
  Epilepsia, New York, 1938, 1: 124-127,
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Selected Writings of Sir Charles Sherrington.
  London, Hamish Hamilton, 1939.
• D. Denny-Brown and W. R. Russell:
  Traumatic shock in experimental cerebral concussion.
  Proceedings of the Physiological Society. Journal of Physiology, 1941, 99: 6-7.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Sir Henry Head, F.R.S. Nature, London, 1940, 146: 583-585.
• D. Denny-Brown and W. Ritchie Russell:
  Experimental cerebral concussion.
  Journal of Physiology, Cambridge, 1940, 99: 153.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Gestalt psychology and neurology.
  Lancet, 1940, 1: 1093-1094,
• D. Denny-Brown and S., Nevin:
  The phenomenon of myotonia. Brain, Oxford, 1941, 64: 1-18.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Delayed collapse after head injury. Lancet, 1941, 1: 371-385.
• D. Denny-Brown, and W. Ritchie Russell:
  Traumatic shock in experimental cerebral concussion.
  Proceedings of the Physiological Society. Journal of Physiology, 1941, 99: 6-7.
• D. Denny-Brown, and W. Ritchie Russell:
  Experimental cerebral concussion.
  Brain, Oxford, 1941, 64:93-164.
• Denis Williams and D. Denny-Brown:
  Cerebral electrical changes in experimental concussion.
  Brain, Oxford, 1941, 64:223-238.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The sequelae of war head injuries.
  New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1942, 227: 771-789 and 813-821.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The principles of treatment of closed head injury.
  Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1943, 19: 3-16.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  "Shell shock" and effects of high explosives.
  Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, St. Louis, 1943, 28: 509-514.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Effects of modern warfare on civil population.
  Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine, St.Louis, 1943, 28: 641-645.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Factors of importance in head injury - A general survey.
  Clinics, 1943, 1: 1405-1423.
  Also in Virginia Law Review, 1943, 29: 811-829.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Post-concussion syndrome - A critique.
  Annals of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, 1943, 19: 427-432,
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Paralysis agitans (chapter), A Textbook of Medicine by American Authors, ed. by R.L. Cecil, 6th ed., W.B. Saunders & Co., 1943: 1462-1465.
• D. Denny-Brown, and Charles Brenner:
  Paralysis of nerve induced by direct pressure and by tourniquet. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1944, 51: 1-26.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The clinical aspects of traumatic epilepsy.
  American Journal of Psychiatry, Washington, 1944, 100: 585-592.
• D. Denny-Brown, Raymond D Adams, and Patrick J. Fitzgerald:
  Pathologic features of herpes zoster - A note on "geniculate herpes".
  Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1944, 51:216-231.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Posttraumatic syndrome (chapter), Manual of Military Psychiatry, H.C. Solomon and P.I. Yakovlev, Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, 1944: 457-467.
• D. Denny-Brown, and Charles Brenner:
  Lesion in peripheral nerve resulting from compression by spring clip.
  Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1944, 52: 1-19.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Disability arising from closed head injury.
  American Medical Association, 1945, 127: 429-436.
• Charles Brenner, Arno1d P Freidman, H. Houston Merritt, and D. Denny-Brown:
  Post-traumatic headache.
  Journal of Neurosurgery, Chicago, 1944, 1: 379-391.
• Arnold P. Friedman,. Charles Brenner, and D. Denny-Brown:
  Post traumatic vertigo and dizziness.
  Journal of Neurosurgery, Chicago, 1945, 2: 36-46.
• W. J. Kerr and D. Denny-Brown:
  The problems of motion sickness.
  Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, Philadelphia, 1944, 58: 83.
• D. Denny-Brown and Charles Brenner:
  The effect of percussion of nerve.
  Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, London, 1944, 7: 76-95.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Cerebral concussion.
  Physiological Reviews 1945, 25: 296-325.
• D. Denny-Brown and Margaret M Doherty:
  Effects of transient stretching of peripheral nerve.
  Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1945, 54: 116-129.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Intellectual deterioration resulting from head injury.
  Research Publications - Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease. Chapter 18. 1945, 24: 467-472.
• D. Denny-Brown, Raymond D Adams, Charles Brenner, and Margaret N Doherty:
  The pathology of injury to nerve induced by cold.
  Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, New York, 1945, 4: 305-323.
• D. Denny-Brown and Daniel Sciarra:
  Changes in the nervous system in acute porphyria.
  Brain, Oxford, 1945, 68:1-16.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Diseases of the basal ganglia and subthalamic nuclei.
  Oxford University Press, New York, Inc., Oxford System of Medicine, edited by H. Christian, Chapter 11, Vol. 6, 261-302, 1945 (also published as a monograph by Oxford Univ. Press, New York, 1946).
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The maintenance and use of the iron lung.
  Medical Directorate, India, Technical Instruction 59, 1945.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Memorandum on neurology: Care of traumatic paraplegia.
  Medical Directorate, India, Technical Instruction 64, 1945.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Memorandum on neurology: Neurological syndromes in ex-prisoners of war.
  Medical Directorate, India, Technical Instruction 65,1945.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Memorandum on neurology: Investigation of chronic sciatic pain.
  Medical Directorate, India, Technical Instruction 66, 1945.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Memorandum on neurology: Treatment of neurosyphilis.
  Medical Directorate, India, Technical Instruction 67, 1945.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Importance of neural fibroblasts in the regeneration of nerve.
  Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1946, 55: 171-215.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Indian neurological interlude.
  Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, 1946, 20: 111-116.
• D. Denny-Brown
  Handbook of Neurological Examination and Case Recording.
  Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1946.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Indian neurological interlude.
  Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, 1946, 20: 111-116.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Handbook of Neurological Examination and Case Recording.
  Harvard University Press, Massachusetts, 1946, 4 + 107.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Neurological conditions resulting from prolonged and severe dietary restriction.
  Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, 1947, 26: 41-113.
• D. Denny-Brown, and E.H. Botterell:
  The motor functions of the agranular frontal cortex.
  Chapter 12, The Frontal Lobes A.R.N.M.D. 1947, 27: 235-345.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The clinical significance of various types of peripheral neuritis.
  Bulletin of the New England Medical center, Boston, 1948, 10:49-55,
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Primary sensory neuropathy with muscular changes associated with carcinoma.
  Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, London, 1948, 11: 73-87.
• L. Uzman and D. Denny-Brown:
  Amino-aciduria in hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson's Disease).
  American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Thorofare, N.J., 1948, 215: 599-611.
• H. Seyffarth and D. Denny-Brown:
  The grasp reflex and the instinctive grasp reaction.
  Brain, Oxford, 1948, 71:109.
• L., D. Berk, Denny-Brown, M. Finland, and W. Castle:
  Effectiveness of vitamin B12 in combined system disease.
  New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1948, 239: 328-330.
• D. Denny-Brown and J. M. Foley:
  Myokymia and the benign fasciculation of muscular cramps.
  Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, Philadelphia, 1948, 61: 88-96.
• R. D. Adams, C. Pearson, and D. Denny-Brown:
  Traumatic necrosis of pretibial muscles.
  New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1948, 239: 213-217,
• R. D. Adams, Cammermeyer and D. Denny-Brown:
  Acute necrotizing hemorrhagic encephalopathy.
  Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, New York, 1949, 8: 1-29.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Motion Sickness (seasickness, air sickness, train sickness).
  Current Therapy, p. 511, Ed. by H.F. Conn, Philadelphia and London, W.B. Saunders & Co., 1949.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Interpretation of the electromyogram.
  Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1949, 61:99-128.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Neurologic aspects of vertigo.
  New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1949, 241: 144-145.
• D. Denny-Brown, and J.M. Foley:/
  Evidence of a chemical mediator in myotonia.
  Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, Philadelphia, 1949, 63:187-191.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Blast injury. Medical Physics, ed. by O. Glasser, Chicago, Year Book Publications 2:127-129, 1950
• D. Denny-Brown, T. E. Twitchell and L. Saenz-Arroyo:
  The nature of spasticity resulting from cerebral lesions.
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association, New York, 1949, 108-113.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Disintegration of motor function resulting from cerebral lesion.
  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Chicago, 112:1-45, 1950.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Effect of poliomyelitis on the function of the motor neuron.
  Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1950, 64:141-145.
• D. Denny-Brown, and R.D. Adams:
  Clinical pathologic conference, Case from the Division of Neurology, Boston City Hospital.
  Neurology, Cleveland, Ohio, 1951, 1:85-93,
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The treatment of recurrent cerebrovascular symptoms and the question of "vasospasm".
  The Medical Clinics of North America, Philadelphia, 1951, 35: 1457-1484.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The frontal lobes and their functions.
  Modern Trends in Neurology, Ed. by A. Feiling, New York, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. 1951, 2: 13-89.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Hereditary sensory radicular neuropathy.
  Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, London, 1951, 14: 23252.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  El Significado de los Movimientos Compulsivos (Forzados).
  Archivos Mexicanos de Neurologia y Psiquiatria, Mexico, D.F., 1951, 1: 1-8.
• D. Denny-Brown, and H. Porter:
  The effect of BAL on hepatolenticular degeneration.
  New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1951, 245: 917-925.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Hereditary chorea; Hepatolenticular degeneration; Familial spastic paralysis; Progressive familial neuritic atrophies; Dystonia musculorum deformans, 1404-1407: Paralysis agitans, 1439, 1442: Tic and torticollis, 1442-1443: In A Textbook of Medicine, Ed. by R.L. Cecil and R.F. Loeb, Phila. and London, 8th edition, W.B. Saunders Co., 1951
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Summary of the first seven papers Vol. 30, Patterns of organization in the central nervous system. Proceedings of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, N.Y., 1950.
• C. England and D. Denny-Brown:
  Severe sensory changes and trophic disorder in peroneal muscular atrophy (Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type).
  Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1952, 67: 1-22.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Multiple sclerosis - the clinical problem.
  American Journal of Medicine, New York, 1952, 12: 501-509.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The nature of muscular diseases.
  Canadian Medical Association Journal, Ottawa, 1952, 67: 1-6.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The changing pattern of neurologic medicine. Shattuck lecture.
  New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1952, 246: 839-846.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Charles Scott Sherrington. The American Journal of Psychology, Baltimore, 1952, 65: 474-477.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The biological tropisms of the cerebral cortex.
  Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 1952, 10: 399-404. D. Denny-Brown:
  Donald Snell McEachern. Obituary.
  Transactions of the Association of American Physicians, Philadelphia, 1952, 65: 33-34.
• D. Denny-Brown, J. S. Meyer and S. Horenstein.
  The significance of perceptual rivalry resulting from parietal lesions. Brain, Oxford, 1952, 75:433.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Articles on Augustus Volney Waller, 95-98; James Stansfield Collier, 269-27l; Sir Henry Head, 299-302 in The Founders of Neurology (133 Biographical Sketches), ed. by Webb Haymaker, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1953.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Basilar artery syndromes.
  Bulletin of the New England Medical Center, Boston, 1953, 15: 53-60.
• R.D. Adams, D. Denny-Brown and C.M. Pearson:
  Diseases of Muscle: A Study in Pathology.
  Paul Hoeber, N.Y.1953. 2nd edition, 1962.
• C.W. Watson and D. Denny-Brown:
  Myoclonus epilepsy as a symptom of diffuse neuronal disease.
  Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1953, 70: 151-168.
• D. Denny-Brown and J. M. Foley:
  Clinical pathologic conference.
  Neurology, Cleveland, Ohio, 1953, 3: 615-620.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Clinical problems in neuromuscular physiology.
  American Journal of Medicine, New York, 1953, 15: 368-390.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Abnormal copper metabolism and hepatolenticular degeneration.
  Proceedings of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, 1953, 32: 190-197.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Letter from a long lost uncle.
  Digest, Otago Medical School, New Zealand, 1953, 4: 3: 5-8.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Parietal lobe apraxia. Comptes Rendus, 5th International Congress, Lisbon (1953) 1954, 3: 285-287.
• D. Denny-Brown and B.Q. Banker:
  Amorphosynthesis from left parietal lesion.
  AMA. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1954, 71: 302-313.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Etiology. Chapter 3, in Parkinsonism and Its Treatment, ed. by L.J. Doshay, Phila., J.B. Lippincott, 1954. Also published in American Practitioner, Louisville, Kentucky, 1953, 4: 5-10.
• J. S. Meyer, H. C. Fang and D. Denny-Brown.
  Polarographic study of cerebral collateral circulation.
  Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1954, 72: 296-312.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Visuo-motor function in the cerebral cortex (abstract).
  Nordisk Medicin, Stockholm, 1954, 52: 1003.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Degeneration, regeneration and growth of muscle.
  American Journal of Physical Medicine, 1955, 34: 210-211.
  Also published in Proc. of Third Medical Conference of Muscular Dystrophy Association of America, N.Y., 1954.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The clinical problem of aseptic meningitis.
  Rhode Island Medical Journal, 1955, 38:203-214.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  New articles on: Combined system disease, 1553-1556; Wilson's disease, (hepatolenticular degeneration) 638-640; in A Textbook of Medicine ed. by Cecil and Loeb, W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia, 1955
• D. Denny-Brown and J.M. Foley:
  Clinical pathologic conference (Wernicke's disease).
  Neurology 1955, 5: 510-515.
• D. Denny-Brown and R.A. Chambers:
  Visuo-motor responses related to the peristriate cortex of the monkey (abstract).
  Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Chicago, 1955, 73: 566.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Introductory remarks and differential diagnosis: Symposium on headache.
  Bulletin of Tufts-New England Medical Center, 1955, 1:129-132.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Some observations on the nature of release and re-representation in relation to cortical function, Prospect and Retrospect in Neurology.
  Little Brown, Boston, 1955.
• C.W. Watson and D. Denny-Brown:
  Studies of the mechanism of stimulus-sensitive myoclonus in man.
  Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Amsterdam, 1955, 7: 341-356.
• J. S. Meyer and D. Denny-Brown:
  Studies of cerebral circulation in brain injury, I. Validity of combined local cerebral electropolarography, thermometry and steady potentials as an indicator of local circulatory and functional changes.
  Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Amsterdam, 1955, 7: 511-528.
• J.S. Meyer and D. Denny-Brown:
  Studies of cerebral circulation in brain injury, II. Cerebral concussion.
  Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, Amsterdam, 1955, 7: 529-544.
• J.M. Foley and D. Denny-Brown:
  Subacute progressive encephalopathy with bulbar myoclonus.
  Exerpta Medica, Amsterdam, 1955, 8: 782-784.
• D. Denny-Brown, S. Horenstein and H.C. Fang:
  Cerebral infarction produced by venous distention.
  Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, New York, 1956, 15:146-180.
• J.S. Meyer, H. Leiderman and D. Denny-Brown:
  Electroencephalographic study of insufficiency of the basilar and carotid arteries in man.
  Neurology 1956, 6: 455-477.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Positive and negative aspects of cerebral cortical functions.
  North Carolina Medical Journal, 1956, 17: 295-303.
• R. Talbert , D. Denny-Brown and M.C. Swanton:
  Clinical Pathologic Conference. Neurology 1956, 6: 656-666.
• J.S. Meyer and D. Denny-Brown:
  The cerebral collateral circulation. I. Factors influencing collateral blood flow.
  Neurology 1957, 7: 447-458.
• D. Denny-Brown and J.S. Meyer:
  The cerebral collateral circulation. II. Production of cerebral infarction by ischemic anoxia and its reversibility in early stages.
  Neurology 1957, 7: 567-579.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Handbook of Neurological Examination and Case Recording.
  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1957.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The Sherrington School of Physiology. Journal of Neurophysiology, Bethesda, 1957, 20: 543-548.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Diagnosis and treatment of muscular dystrophy.
  Postgraduate Medicine, Minneapolis, 1957, 22: 558-565.
• H.S. Bennett, A. Szent-Gyorgyi, D. Denny-Brown, R.D. Adams and A.S. Rose:
  What we need to know about muscle.
  Neurology, 1958, 8: 65-79.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The nature of apraxia. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Chicago, 1958, 126: 9-32.
• D. Denny-Brown and R.A. Chambers:
  The parietal lobe and behavior.
  Proceedings of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, The Brain and Human Behavior, Williams and Wilkins Co., 1958, 36: 35-117.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The impact of science on neurological medicine.
  The New Zealand Medical Journal, 1958, 56: 159-167.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The neurological aspects of thiamine deficiency.
  Conference on Nutritional Disease, Fed. Proc. Vol. 17, Part 2, Supp. 1958, 2: 34-39,
• G. Rushworth and D. Denny-Brown:
  The two components of the grasp reflex after ablation of frontal cortex in monkeys.
  Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, London, 1959, 22: 91-98.
• B.Q. Banker and D. Denny-Brown:
  A study of denervated muscle in normal and dystrophic mice.
  Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, New York, 1959, 18: 517-530.
• D. Denny-Brown and R.A. Chambers:
  Visual orientation in the macaque monkey.
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association, New York, 1959, 83:37-39.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Motor mechanisms - Introduction: The general principles of motor integration, Chapter 32, Vol. 2, Handbook of Physiology, ed. by J. Field, American Physiological Society, Washington, 1960.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Recurrent cerebrovascular episodes.
  Archives of Neurology, Chicago, 1960, 2: 194-210,.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The nature of polymyositis and related muscular diseases.
  Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 4 Ser., 1960, 28: 14-39.
• Capt. J.K. Penry (USAF ), D. Hoefnagel, S. van den Noort and D. Denny-Brown:
  Muscle spasm and abnormal postures resulting from damage to interneurones in spinal cord. Archives of Neurology, Chicago, 1960, 3: 500-512.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  On singleness of purpose.
  Archives of Neurology, Chicago, 1960, 3:613-619.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Diseases of the basal ganglia: Their relation to disorders of movement. Lancet, 1960, 2: 1099-1105 and 1155-1162.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Obituary: Bronson Crothers 1884-1959. Transactions of the American Neurological Association, New York, 251-252, 1960
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Obituary: John Farquhar Fulton 1899-1960. Transactions of the American Neurological Association, New York, 1960: 262-263.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Presidential address. Transactions of the American Neurological Association, New York, 1960: 2-9.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Experimental studies pertaining to hypertrophy, regeneration and degeneration.
  Neuromuscular Disorders. Research Publications : Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, 1961, 38: 147-196.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Brain trauma and concussion.
  Archives of neurology, Chicago, 1961, 8: 1.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Pathophysiology in Cerebral Vascular Diseases.
  Transactions of the Third Conference held under the auspices of the American Neurological Association and the American Heart Association, 51-54, New York, Grune and Stratton, 1961.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The pallidal lesion of parkinsonism.
  International Journal of Neurology, 1961, 2: 25-33.
• D. Denny-Brown,
  The Basal Ganglia and their Relation to Disorders of Movement.
  Oxford University Press, London, 1962.
• O.S.M. Marin and D. Denny-Brown:
  Changes in skeletal muscle associated with cachexia.
  American Journal of Pathology, Philadelphia, 1962, 41: 23-39.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The midbrain and motor integration. Sherrington Memorial Lecture.
  Proc. Soc. Med. 1962, 55: 527-528.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The occurence of two general types of change in degenerative affections of the basal ganglia. Les Editions "Acta Medica Belgica", Extrait du Livre Jubilaire du Dr. Ludo van Bogaert, 215-221, Annee 1962.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Clinical symptomology in right and left hemispheric lesions.
  Discussion 244-252, Interhemispheric Relations and Cerebral Dominance, ed. by Vernon B. Mountcastle, The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1962
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Degeneration of skeletal muscle.
  Revue Canadienne de Biologie, 1962, 21:507-522.
• D. Denny-Brown.
  Obituary: Luftu Lahut Uzman. Transactions of the American Neurological Association, New York, 1963. 83:302-304.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The physiological aspects of perception and speech. 30-62, in Problems of Dynamic Neurology, ed. L. Halpern, Jerusalem, Israel, Hadassah Medical Organization, 1963
• D. Denny-Brown and S. Gilman:
  Behavioural effects of dorsal column lesions.
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association, New York, 1963, 88: 95-98.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Department of Neurology. In A History of the Boston City Hospital, 1905-1964, ed. J.J. Byrne, Boston, Sheldon Press, 110-122, 1964 .
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Hepatolenticular degeneration (Wilson's Disease). Two different components.
  New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, 1964, 270: 1149-1156.
• R.F. Mayer and D. Denny-Brown:
  Conduction velocity in peripheral nerve during experimental demyelination in the cat.
  Neurology, 1964, 14: 714-726.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Disturbances of the blood-brain barrier in diseases of the basal ganglia.
  In Festschrift to H.B. Konowalow, Moscow, 1964: 37-49.
• D. Denny-Brown, H. Viets, R. Adams, R. Schwab, C. Kubik and R. Smith:
  Obituary: James Bourne Ayer, M.D. 1882-1963.
  Archives of Neurology, Chicago, 1964, 11: 449-451.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The extrapyramidal system and postural mechanisms.
  Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, St. Louis, 1964, 5: 812-827.
• D. Denny-Brown, S. Gilman and J.P. Van Der Muelen:
  Patterns of cortical ablations leading to dystonic postures.
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association, New York, 1964, 89: 119-121.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The premotor syndrome in relation to extrapyramidal symptoms.
  International Journal of Neurology, 1965, 4: 21-38.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Chronic neurologic disorders – editorial.
  Postgraduate Medicine, Minneapolis, 1965, 37: 367-368.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The nature of dystonia. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1965, 41:858-869.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  An example of sensory integration of the stretch reflex.
  Studies in Physiology presented to John C. Eccles, edited by D.R. Curtis & A.K. McIntyre, pub. by Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1965: 42-47.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Physiological aspects of disturbances of speech.
  Australian Journal of Experimental Biology and Medical Sciences, 1965, 43: 4,455.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Nature of dystonia. Proceedings of the Australian Association of Neurologists, 1965, 3: 1-6.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The release of deep pain by nerve injury.
  Brain, Oxford, 1965, 88: 725-728.
• D. Denny-Brown and S. Gilman:
  Depression of gamma innervation by cerebellectomy.
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association, New York, 1965. 96-101.
• D. Denny-Brown and C. D. Aring.
  A tribute to Sir Gordon Holmes.
  Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Baltimore, 1966, 141: 497-504.
• J. P. Van Der Meulen, D. Denny-Brown and S. Gilman:
  Muscle spindle activity in animals with chronic lesions of the central nervous system.
  Nobel Symposium I: Muscular Afferents and Motor Control, ed. by Ragnar Granit, Almqvist and Wiksell, Stockholm, 1966: 139-149,
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The Cerebral Control of Movement. (Sherrington lectures for 1963).
  Liverpool University Press and C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill., 1966
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Electromyography and other aids to diagnosis.
  Hand Surgery, ed. by J.E. Flynn, Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins, 1966, Chapter 10, 450-456.
• D. Denny-Brown and R. Rodda:
  The cerebral arterioles in experimental hypertension I. The nature of arteriolar constriction and its effects on the collateral circulation.
  American Journal of Pathology, Philadelphia, 1966, 49: 53-76.
• D. Denny-Brown and R. Rodda:
  The cerebral arterioles in experimental hypertension II. The development of arteriolonecrosis.
  American Journal of Pathology, Philadelphia, 1966, 49: 365-381.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The Cerebral Control of Movement.
  Springfield, Charles C. Thomas, 1966.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Pathophysiology of focal cerebral ischemia. Chapter 12, Cerebrovascular Disease. Proceedings of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, 1966: 196-204.
• S.Gilman and D. Denny-Brown:
  Disorders of movement and behaviour following dorsal column lesions.
  Brain, Oxford, 89: 397-418, Part 3, 1966.
• P. Juul-Jensen and D. Denny-Brown:
  Epilepsia partialis continua.
  Archives of Neurology, 1966, 15: 563-578.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The organismic (holistic) approach: the neurological impact of Kurt Goldstein.
  Neuropsychologia, 1966, 4: 293-297.
• D. Denny-Brown and S. Gilman:
  Dystonic posture in relation to various levels of decerebration.
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association, New York, 1966, 91: 69-70.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The fundamental organization of motor behavior.
  Chapter 3 of the Neurophysiological Basis of Normal and Abnormal Motor Activities, ed. by M.D. Yahr and D.P. Purpura, Raven Press, N.Y., 1967
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Report on conference on neurological education: closing remarks.
  Archives of Neurology, Chicago, 1967, 17: 586-587.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Quelques aspects physiologiques des myoclonies.
  Revue Neurologique, Paris, 1968, 1: 121-129.
• D. Denny-Brown and E. Kirk:
  Hyperesthesia from spinal and root lesions.
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association 1968, 93: 116-120.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Obituary - Stanley Cobb.
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association 1968, 93: 306-308.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Clinical symptomatology of diseases of the basal ganglia.
  Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 1968, 6: 133-172.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  Frontal lobes and their function.
  Pp 365-429, Brain and Behavior II. Perception and Action, ed. by K.H. Pribram, Penguin Modern Psychological Series, Penguin Books, Baltimore, Maryland, reprinted from Modern Trends in Neurology, ed. by A. Feiling, 1951.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  The Rigidity of Parkinsonism. Third Symposium on Parkinson's Disease, ed. by F.J. Gillingham and I.M.L. Donaldson, Livingstone, Edinburgh, 1969, pp. 128-133.
• D. Denny-Brown and J.B. Pennybacker:
  Fibrillation and Fasciculation in Voluntary Muscle.
  Bulletin of the American Association or Electromyography and Electrodiagnosis, Vol. 15/16, 1p. 24-35, August, 1969 (reprinted from Brain, Vol 61, 1938).
• E.J. Kirk and D. Denny-Brown:
  vFunctional variation in dermatomes in the macaque monkey following dorsal root lesions.
  Journal of Comparative Neurology, New York, 1970, 139: 307-320.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  "Charles Scott Sherrington". New article in The Founders of Neurology, pp. 267-272. 2nd Edition, ed. by W. Haymaker and F. Schiller. Pub. by Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1970.
• D. Denny-Brown and N. Yanagisawa:
  The descending trigeminal tract as a mechanism for intersegmental sensory facilitation.
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association 1970, 95: 129-133.
• D. Denny-Brown and N. Yanagisawa:
  The evolution of spastic paraplegia following cortical ablation in infant monkeys.
  Transactions of the American Neurological Association 1971, 96: 169-172.
• D. Denny-Brown:
  
• The tegmental mechanism for conjugate eye movement.
  Transactions. American Neurological Association, 1980, 105: 364-367.
• S. Locke:
  Modern Neurology Papers in Tribute to Denny-Brown.
  Boston, Little Brown, 1969.
• S. D. Gilman:
  Denny-Brown 1901-1981.
  Neurology, Cleveland, Ohio, 1982, 32: 1-6.
• J. M. Foley:
  Obituary: Derek Ernest Denny-Brown, 1901-1981.
  Annals of Neurology, Boston, 1981, 11: 413-419.
• N. Geschwind:
  Obituary: Derek Ernest Denny-Brown 1901-1981. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, Amsterdam, 1982, 53: 137-139.
• R. W. Gillat:
  Dr. Derek Denny-Brown, OBE, MD. DPHIL, FRCP, 1901-1981: an appreciation.
  Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, Calgary, 1981, 8: 271-273.
• R. A. Chambers:
  Derek Ernest Denny-Brown, OBE, MD(NZ), FRCP(Lond).
  Archives of Neurology, Chicago, 1981, 38: 603-604.
• J. A. Vilensky, S. Gilman, E.M. Dec:
  The Denny-Brown Collection: a research and teaching resource.
  Annals of Neurology, Boston, 1994, 36: 247-251.