Major Appointments
Mosley Traveling Fellowship, National Hospital in London, 1952–1953
United States Public Health Service Fellowship, National Hospital in London, 1953–1955
Chief Resident (Neurology), Boston City Hospital, 1955
Research Fellowship (Biology), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956–1958
Neurologist, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, 1958–1962
Chief of Neurology, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, 1963–1966
Director, Department of Neurology, Boston University Aphasia Center, 1966–1968
James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, 1969–1984
Major Honors and Awards
Honorary Doctorate, Northwestern University, 1980
Honorary Doctorate, Université Claude Bernard, 1981
Honorary Member, French Society of Neurology
Honorary Member, Belgain Royal Academy of Medicine
Pattison Prize in Neuroscience, 1982
Leonard Cammer Memorial Award, 1982
Fellow, American Academy of Neurology
Member, Academy of Aphasia
Member, American Neurological...
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Seely, P.W., Moore, A.B. (2018). Geschwind, Norman (1926–1984). In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_618
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