2013 Stanley Fahn Presidential Lecture: The signs of a neurologist

The Stanley Fahn Award Lecture was created to recognize an outstanding scholar and role-model clinician in the field of Movement Disorders. The selected lecturer must show evidence of exceptional contributions which have resulted in better understanding of the cause, diagnosis, or treatment of Movement Disorders, and have translated into meaningful improvements in the standard of clinical practice. The selected lecturer must demonstrate evidence of consistent dedication to Movement Disorders education and research.

• Philip Thompson, MBBS (Adelaide), PhD (London), FRACP Professor of Neurology in the University Department of Medicine at the University of Adelaide and Head of the Department of Neurology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Prof. Thompson trained in Adelaide, Perth and London. He developed his interest in Movement Disorders and the control of human movement under the guidance of the late Professor C. David Marsden at Kings College Hospital, the Institute of Psychiatry, the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and the MRC Human Movement and Balance Unit, Queen Square. His research has focused on the physiology of motor control in normal subjects, the mechanisms of brain stimulation, and disorders of motor control in neurological disease, particularly movement disorders. He is also interested in the physiological basis of clinical signs in Neurology and the ways in which Neurologists recognize these signs.