( continued from page 27 ) cephalograms from the 1930s .
A ventriculoperitoneal shunt was placed . He died in May 1977 , probably at least in part due to bilateral chronic subdural collections which developed subsequent to the shunting .
Dr . Ackerly first saw JP in 1933 , when Spaff was the only full time Psychiatrist at UofL . JP was first introduced to the neuropsychiatric community at large in 1947 at a meeting of the Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disorders . The first formal paper by Ackerly and Benton ( Bilateral Frontal Lobe Deficit ) was published in 1948 , and Ackerly published a detailed follow up in 1964 . References to JP occur throughout the neuropsychiatric literature . JP ’ s case is the longest recorded follow up of a case of early childhood frontal injury .
I am glad to have played a part in the assembly of information that has contributed to this historic presentation . Contributions from the University of Massachusetts , Harvard University , the University of Toronto , the University of Maryland and the University of Louisville , as well as local private physicians and retirees have all impacted the depth of this work .
Patient confidentiality dictates the identification of our subject as only JP . A careful search has revealed no living close relatives of JP . Those of us who worked with him before and after his death know him , however , by his full name , and not just the scientifically anonymous “ JP .”
Dr . Rice is a retired diagnostic and interventional neuroradiologist .
Dr . Adams is a retired child and adult psychiatrist . She is co-author with Homer B . Martin , MD of the award-winning bestseller , Living on Automatic : How Emotional Conditioning Shapes Our Lives and Relationships .
Dr . Smock is the Police Surgeon with Louisville Metro Police Department and a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine with UofL .
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