HISTORY OF SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH FILMS IN N EUROLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY IN GERMANY 1895-1929

Based on a systematic journal survey, an account is given of the histo ry of research films in neurology and psychiatry in Germany in the era of the silent film 1895-1929. In 1897, Paul Schuster of Berlin was th e first who filmed patients with a variety of movement disorders. Sinc e 1927, Otto Lowenstein of Bonn developed the method of pupillography which was based on single-frame analysis and allowed quantitative eval uation of pupillary responses. Film recordings of epileptic fits prove d to be of value in the scientific study of epilepsy. The few films co pies that have survived the passage of time are valuable documents of medical history.