THE USE OF AND FAMILIARITY WITH NEUROLOGICAL EPONYMS AT THE CLOSE OF THE 20TH-CENTURY BY DUTCH NEUROLOGISTS - AN INVENTORY

In order to get an impression on the opinion of the use of neurologica l eponyms we sent questionnaires on 205 eponyms to 850 members of the Netherlands Association for Neurology. The responses by 256 (30%) were analyzed. A positive correlation was found between age and the knowle dge of eponyms. The best known eponyms belong to category II (tests an d manoeuvres). Surprisingly, many of the responding colleagues did not prefer descriptive terms to eponyms: 57% of the eponyms were preferre d by more than 50% of the respondents. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.