Nathan Malamud

Country: USA
Company: Medicine
Brother of William. In the field of neuropathology, he made numerous con- tributions to the literature throughout his career. His first published paper was "Barrier Between the Blood and Cerebral Spinal Fluid" in the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. He published a paper entitled "Encephalitis Complicating Measles" in 1937; "Picks Disease with Atrophy of the Temporal Lobes" published in 1940, and "Heat Stroke: AClinical Pathologic Study of 125 Fatal Cases" in 1946. He also pub- lished "Inclusion Encephalitis" with Webb Haymaker and H. Pinkerton in 1950 and "The Relationship between Wernicke and Korsakoff's Syndrome" in 1956. Perhaps his best-known publication was "Pathoanatomic Changes in Amyotrophic Laterosclerosis on Guam" with Dr. Asao Hirano and Dr. L. T. Kurlund in Archives of Neurology in 1961. Through the years he also published seminal articles on status marmoratus, on the clinical significance of sclerosis of the cornu ammonis, and the often-quoted pa- per "Sequelae of Perinatal Trauma" published in January 1959 in this journal. He also served as a consultant to the Oakland Naval Hospital and Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco. Dr. Malamud was Vice-President of the American Association of Neuropathologists in 1959 and served on the Editorial Board of this journal. Through- out his career hereceived several awardsand honors from the University of California System, as well as the US Army, for his long years of service to them as a consultant.
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