1831 |
Publication of Insania loquaz (1835), by one of the pioneers of neuropsychiatry in Brazil, José Martins da Cruz Jobim, the first publication about mental illness in Brazil. |
1852 |
Inauguration of the D. Pedro II Hospice. |
1867 |
João Carlos Teixeira Brandão appointed director of D. Pedro II Hospice. |
1878 |
Publication of the first Brazilian book on neurology: Lessons about the disorders of the nervous system (João Vicente Torres Homem). |
1881 |
Foundation of the General Polyclinic of Rio de Janeiro. |
1882
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Creation of the chair of Mental Diseases (Law n° 3.141, October 30, 1882). |
1883 |
First public competition for the chair of Nervous and Mental Diseases, at the Faculty of Medicine of Rio de Janeiro. João Carlos Teixeira Brandão was the winner. |
1886 |
Second public competition for the specialist field, in the Faculty of Medicine of Bahia, Augusto Freire de Maia Bittencourt was the winner (1886–1891). |
1890 |
The D. Pedro II Hospice is now called the National Hospice of the Injured and is separate from the Holy House of Mercy. |
1898 |
Inauguration of the Juqueri Hospital, in São Paulo, under the directorship of Francisco Franco da Rocha. |
1903 |
Juliano Moreira is appointed the director of the National Hospice of the Injured, a post he held until 1930. |
1905 |
Juliano Moreira began editing the Brazilian Archives of Psychiatry, Neurology and Legal Medicine. |
1907 |
Founding, (in Rio de Janeiro), of the Brazilian Society of Psychiatry, Neurology and Legal Medicine. |
1912 |
Neurology became an independent medical specialty at the Rio de Janeiro medical school. |
1914 |
Aloysio de Castro published Tractado de Semiotica Nervosa. Luiz Pinto de Carvalho was appointed to the second chair of Neurology in Brazil, at the Faculty of Medicine, Bahia. |
1915 |
Official division of the chairs of Psychiatry and Neurology (Decree n° 11.530, 1915, art. 42). |
1925 |
Enjolras Vampré appointed to the chair of Neurological and Psychiatric Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of São Paulo. |
1935 |
Aloysio de Castro published Semiotica Nervosa. Enjolras Vampré assumed the chair of Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine of São Paulo. |
1938 |
Adherbal Tolosa replaced Enjolras Vampré, who died prematurely. Ulysses Pernambucano was appointed a full professor of the Neurological Clinic of the Faculty of Medicine of Pernambuco. Ulysses Pernambucano published the Neurobiologia magazine. |
1943 |
Osvaldo Lange, Adherbal Tolosa and Paulino Watt Longo founded the Archives of Neuro-Psychiatry. |
1945 |
Deolindo Couto assumed the chair of Neurology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Brazil. |
1946 |
Foundation of the first Institute of Neurology in Brazil (by Deolindo Couto). |
1962 |
Foundation of Brazilian Academy of Neurology (patron Deolindo Couto). |
1964 |
First Brazilian Neurology Congress. |