Professor of Neurology, Emeritus

Neurology

Gerald Fenichel is an expert in the field of Neurology. He graduated from Yale University School of Medicine. Yale University School of Medicine is a top medical college. Yale University School of Medicine is ranked 7 in research and 57 in primary care medicine Gerald Fenichel is a published doctor as well. He has 99 publications published. The latest was: Normal median nerve proximal latency in carpal tunnel syndrome: a clue to coexisting Martin-Gruber anastomosis.

Publications

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• Effect of midbrain lesion on experimental allergy.
• A beneficial effect of oxandrolone in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a pilot study.
• Neural influence on experimental myotonia.
• Contrasts in the professional identities of psychiatrists and internists.
• The molecular genetic basis of muscle phosphoglycerate mutase (PGAM) deficiency.
• Thymectomy for the myasthenia gravis patient: factors influencing outcome.
• Three new mutations in patients with myophosphorylase deficiency (McArdle disease).
• Neurological examination of the newborn.
• Postvaccinal parkinsonism.
• Sneddon and antiphospholipid antibody syndromes causing bilateral thalamic infarction.
• Nonsense and missense mutations of the muscle chloride channel gene in patients with myotonia congenita.
• Dystonia and unique muscle features. A 23-year follow-up and correction of diagnosis in two brothers.
• Familial cramps and muscle pain.
• Cramps, muscle pain, and tubular aggregates.
• Heart rate changes in convulsive and nonconvulsive neonatal apnea.
• Agenesis of the corpus callosum.
• The natural history of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: a caveat for therapeutic trials.
• Ionic conductance and experimentally induced myotonia.
• Relapsing ocular myasthenia.
• Progressive muscle disease in a young woman with family history of Duchenne's muscular dystrophy.
• Clinical trial in Duchenne dystrophy. I. The design of the protocol.
• An autosomal-dominant dystrophy with humeropelvic distribution and cardiomyopathy.
• Neurogenic arthrogryposis in one identical twin.
• Neurologic complications of tetanus toxoid.
• The pertussis vaccine controversy. The danger of case reports.
• Neurological complications of immunization.
• Intracranial hemorrhage in the term newborn.
• Incidence and prognosis of seizures in infants after cardiac surgery with profound hypothermia and circulatory arrest.
• Hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy in the newborn.
• Clinical investigation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: IV. Double-blind controlled trial of leucine.
• Clinical investigation in Duchenne dystrophy: 2. Determination of the "power" of therapeutic trials based on the natural history.
• The newborn with poor muscle tone.
• T-cell subsets in polymyositis.
• Neurogenic atrophy simulating facioscapulohumeral dystrophy. A dominant form.
• Congenital muscular dystrophy: case reports and reappraisal.
• The pregnant epileptic: a review and recommendations.
• Clinical syndromes of myasthenia in infancy and childhood. A review.
• On the pathogenesis of duchenne muscular dystrophy.
• Randomized, double-blind trial of mazindol in Duchenne dystrophy.
• Testing of therapeutic interventions in humans.
• A comparison of daily and alternate-day prednisone therapy in the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
• Prednisone in Duchenne dystrophy. A randomized, controlled trial defining the time course and dose response. Clinical Investigation of Duchenne Dystrophy Group.
• Risk of seizures after measles-mumps-rubella immunization.
• Long-term benefit from prednisone therapy in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
• Normal median nerve proximal latency in carpal tunnel syndrome: a clue to coexisting Martin-Gruber anastomosis.
• Hangman''s fracture subsequent to shaking in an infant.
• Contemporary management of myasthenia gravis: the clinical role of thymectomy.
• Neurological assessment of the 25- to 30-week premature infant.
• The natural history of acute confusional migraine.
• Acetazolamide in the treatment of pyruvate dysmetabolism syndromes.
• Dyskinesia and akathisia induced by ethosuximide.
• The effect of denervation on subsequent in vitro induction of myotonia.
• Imidazole myopathy. Production of the myopathy and its dependence on acetylcholine.
• Myopathies in search of a name: benign congenital forms.
• Thrombophlebitis secondary to methysergide maleate therapy.
• Cerebral influence on muscle fiber typing. The effect of fetal immobilization.
• The treatment of prolonged seizure activity with intravenous diazepam.
• Studies on neuromelanin. II. Melanin in the brainstems of infants and children.
• Neuromelanin in the brain stems of children.
• Cerebral hypotonia.
• Migraine in childhood. Brief review of this inherited disorder which strikes five per cent of school-age children.
• A spinal muscular atrophy with scapuloperoneal distribution.
• Two syndromes following rubella immunization. Clinical observations and epidemiological studies.
• Surgical disconnection of the cerebral hemispheres for intractable seizures. Results in infancy and childhood.
• Recent clinical advances in the treatment of neurological diseases.
• Migraine as a cause of benign paroxysmal vertigo of childhood.
• Treatment of salmonella meningitis.
• Homocystinuria.
• An unusual case of temporal lobe seizures.
• Sepsis of the newborn and its complicating factors.
• The use of diazepam in the treatment of status epilepticus.
• Endocrine, chromosome, and muscle studies in oculomandibulodyscephaly.
• Histochemical studies of the embryology of muscle with particular reference to cerebral hypotonia.
• Muscle lesions in myasthenia gravis.
• Pediatric neurology seminar: major motor seizures.
• Hereditary dystonia associated with unique features in skeletal muscle.
• Juvenile Parkinsonism treated with levodopa.
• An experimental myopathy secondary to excessive acetylcholine release.
• Abnormalities of skeletal muscle maturation in brain damaged children: a histochemical study.
• Barr body studies from the hair.
• Studies on neuromelanin. I. A melanin system in the human adult brainstem.
• The effect of immobilization and exercise on acetylcholine-mediated myopathies.
• Chronic inhibition of cholinesterase as a cause of myopathy.
• Diffuse retinopathy following measles, mumps, and rubella vaccination.
• Clinical investigation in Duchenne dystrophy: V. Use of creatine kinase and pyruvate kinase in carrier detection.
• Valproate hepatotoxicity: two new cases, a summary of others, and recommendations.
• Migraine in children.
• Epidural hematoma of the newborn due to birth trauma.
• Superoxide dismutases, glutathione peroxidase, and catalase in neuromuscular disease.
• Clinical investigation of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Interesting results in a trial of prednisone.
• Difficulty in clinical identification of neonatal seizures: an EEG monitor study.
• Clinical investigation in Duchenne dystrophy. VI. Double-blind controlled trial of nifedipine.
• Genetic heterogeneity in Duchenne dystrophy.
• Clinical investigation of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A methodology for therapeutic trials based on natural history controls.
• Pertussis: the disease and the vaccine.
• Clinical investigation in Duchenne muscular dystrophy: penicillamine and vitamin E.
• Congenital muscular dystrophies.
• Update: Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Schools

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• Yale University

• Strong Memorial Hospital

• National Institute Neur Dis Blindnes

• Yale Hospital

Doctors Specialties

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• Neurology
• Pediatric Neurology

Accepted Insurances

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Education

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• Yale New Haven Children's Center
• National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
• University of Rochester
• Yale University School of Medicine

Hospital

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• Vanderbilt Hospital and Clinics

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