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Neurohistory.nl is the homepage of Peter J. Koehler.
After studying medicine at Leiden University, I specialized in neurology in The Hague and defended my PhD dissertation at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (Het localisatieconcept in de neurologie van Brown-Séquard). I became a general neurologist, until 2016 responsible for the neurology training programme, in Zuyderland Medical Centre, Heerlen, The Netherlands with special interest in neuro-oncology and headache, both subjects in which research resulted in a number of papers (see PubMed). I retired from clinical practice in December 2019 and remain affiliated with the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
From January 2020 until December 2024, I was Senior Associate Editor of Medlink Neurology. Furthermore, I am interested in the history of neurology / neurosciences. Since 1996 I have been a member of executive board of the ISHN (International Society for the History of the Neurosciences). I am editor-in-chief of the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences since 1997 and was chair of the History Section of the American Academy of Neurology (2009-11). I teach History of the Neurosciences at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University. I am Chair of the Special Group of the History of the Neurosciences of the World Federation of Neurology and furthermore member of the editorial board of European Neurology and Neurological Research and Practice. I published books among which Neurological Eponyms and a book on Brown-Séquard, as well as papers on the history of neurology, in particular on the history of headache/migraine. The life of Philippe Fermin: Nature, medicine and law in Suriname and the Netherlands will be published in February 2026 (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment). The Stone of Madness. Art and History is forthcoming (TMGN, Urk).