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in 1950 and Narasimhan joined him as an honorary assistant surgeon. During the pioneering days, X-rays and EEG were used in diagnosis as angiography was not yet available in India. During the neurosurgical procedures that Balasubramaniam under took, Narasimhan assisted him in EEG service and in later
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gives some details. Narasimhan was born in 1913, and around 1945 he sold his medical practice in India so he could go to the United States of America to further his studies. He was a General Surgeon and at the
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he trained in neurology and neurosurgery. He returned to India in 1948 and started his private practice setting up a neurosurgical nursing home and EEG laboratory and stayed in the residential areas of
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Not much is known about the life of Narasimhan; but Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi's biography
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Ramesh, Vengalathurganesan; Bhanu, Kesavamurthy; Jothi, Ranganathan (20 March 2004).
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and together they have been credited to be pioneers in development of
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Dr. Balasubramaniam had set up the Department of Neurosurgery at the
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Stanley Finger, Francois Boller, Kenneth L. Tyler (2009).
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surgery in India. They also helped in establishing the
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In 1959, Narasimhan became the Honorary Professor of
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Index

electrophysiologist
Electroencephalography
Chennai
Jacob Chandy
Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi
Baldev Singh
epilepsy
Neurological Society of India
Neurological Institute of New York
Kilpauk
Chennai
Government General Hospital, Chennai

Government of Madras
Electroencephalography
Bangalore
History of Neurology
ISBN
978-0-7020-3541-8
cite book
link
"The Madras Institute of Neurology, Madras Medical College, Chennai"
Neurology India
doi
10.4103/0028-3886.170058
PMID
26588630


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