Pamela E. B. Rodgers Johnson, Jamaican neuropathologist (1930 – 28 April 1999)

Recognized as world expert on neurovirology

Authored the first paper about treating acute schizophrenia in general medical wards

With F.W. Hickling, M. McCallum & L. Nooks. Treatment  of acute schizophrenia in open general medical wards in Jamaica. Psychiatr. Serv. 51(5):659-63, 2000

DISEASES

With P. Brown, F. Cathala et al. Creutzfeld-Jakob disease of long duration: clinicopathological characteristics, transmissibility, and differential diagnosis. Ann. Neurol. 16:295-304, 1984

Identified HTLV-I virus as being the etiological agent for Tropical Spastic Paraparesis or Jamaican Neuropathy

With D.C. Gajdusek, O. St C. Morgan, V. Zaninovic, P.S. Sarin & D.S. Graham. HTLV-I and HTLV-II antibodies and tropical spastic paraparesis. Lancet 2:1247-8, 1985

With J.W. Lee, E.P. Fox et al. A case report implicating HTLV-I as a cause of three diseases. Ann. Intern. Med. 110:239-41, 1988

With D.C. Gajdusek & R.M. Garruto. Tropical myeloneuropathies, a new aetiology. Trends in Neurosciences 11(12):526-32, 1988

OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

With P. Brown, C.J. Gibbs Jr., D.M. Asher et al. Human spongiform encephalopathy: the National Institutes of Health series of 300 cases of experimentally transmitted disease. Ann. Neurol. 35(5):513-9, 1994 

With B.W. Little, P.W. Brown. D.P. Perl & D.C. Gajdusek. Familial myoclonic dementia masquerading as Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. Ann. Neurol. 20(2):231-9, 1986