Biography

Deolindo Augusto de Nunes Couto, Brazilian neurologist and writer (Teresina 11 March 1902 – Rio de Janeiro 29 May 1992)

Described Deolindo Couto’s pseudo-myopathic syndrome

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

With B. Couto. Schistosomiasis of the spinal cord. Rev. Neurol. 20:315-25, 1962

Polineuropatias alcoholicas perifericas. Rev. Neurol. Bs. Aires 18(11):67-78, 1960

With P.W. Longo. Le traitement médicale des maladies dites extrapyramidales (1957)

With N. Costa. Esquistossomose da medula. J. Bras. Neurol. 2:89, 1949

With A. Austregésilo, F. Austregésilo & N. Costa. Algumas observações clinico-patologicas acerca das neuroviroses observadas no Brasil. J. Bras. Neurol. 1:363-75, 1949

With R.L. Cavalcanti. Gargoilismo, lipocondrodistrofia, doença de Hurler, disostose multiplex. Rev. Centro Psiq. Nac. 1:13-7, 1946

O tremor parkinsoniano e a via piramidal (1945)

Sindromes neuro-vegetativas do aparelho genital feminino. An. Bras. Ginec. 17:38-46, 1944

Clinica neurologica (1944)

Medulloblastoma of fourth ventricle, with report of case. Cultura Med. 3:33-47, 1941

Sindrome de Little. Arch. Pediat. 13:9, 1940

Doenças de Recklinghausen e de Paget (1934)

With A. Austregésilo. De la possibilité d’une atrofie musculaire d’origine cerebrale (1931)

With A. Austregésilo. Neurofibromatose de Recklinghausen et maladie de Paget. L’Encephale 25:592-9, 1930

Polyneurites gravidicas (1928)

O clono do pé (1926)

HONORS

Vice-president, International Congresses of Neurology at Paris (1949), Lisbon (1955), Bruxelles (1957) and Rome (1961)

Honorary Member, Societé Française de Neurologie

Honorary Member, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie

Honorary Member, Sociedad Argentina de Neurologia

Honorary Member, American Neurological Association