Aristides Leão: a birth centennial homage with comments on his spreading depression

The year of 2014 is the birth centenary of Aristides Azevedo Pacheco Leão (1914-1993), and also marks seventy years of the publication of his discovery of the novel electrophysiological phenomenon, named by him “spreading depression” (SD), soon designated “Leão’s wave” or “Leão’s spreading depressio...

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Main Authors: Eliasz Engelhardt, Marleide da Mota Gomes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Neurologia (ABNEURO) 2015-06-01
Series:Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-282X2015000600544&lng=en&tlng=en