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Neurohistory.nl is the homepage of Peter J. Koehler.
I am 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

Since January 2020 I am 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: History Section Editor of Cephalalgia and 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 Stone of Madness. Art and History is forthcoming.