Journal of Neurology

, Volume 264, Issue 10, pp 2187–2189 | Cite as

William G. Niederland (1904–1993)

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Instructor Holocaust Survival Mount Sinai Medical German Court 
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Acknowledgements

I am grateful for support from the Mackie Family Collection in the History of Neuroscience, the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, and the O’Brien Institute for Public Health (all: Calgary), and acknowledge the former support from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (III-FLF-DEU/1121795). I graciously thank Mr. Christopher Kemp (previously: McGill) for his invaluable research assistance, Ms. Yedida Kanfer (Holocaust Center of Northern California, San Francisco, CA, USA) for her kind archival assistance, as well as Dr. Brenan Smith (Calgary) for the adjustment of the English language of this article.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Departments of Community Health Sciences and History, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and O’Brien Institute for Public HealthUniversity of CalgaryCalgaryCanada

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