'Voodoo' death revisited: The modern lessons of neurocardiology

Martin A. Samuels, MD, DSc (hon), FAAN, MACP
Neurologist-in-Chief and Chairman, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Correspondence: Martin A. Samuels, MD, Neurologist-in-Chief, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, BB204, Boston, MA 02115; msamuels@partners.org

Dr. Samuels reported that he has no financial relationships that pose a potential conflict of interest with this article.

This article is adapted from “Introduction to Neurocardiology” by Martin A. Samuels, chapter 43 in: Mathias CJ, Bannister R, eds. Autonomic Failure: A Textbook of Clinical Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System, 4th ed; 1999:421–427, by permission of Oxford University Press (www.oup.co.uk).

Martin A. Samuels, MD, DSc (hon), FAAN, MACP
Neurologist-in-Chief and Chairman, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Correspondence: Martin A. Samuels, MD, Neurologist-in-Chief, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, BB204, Boston, MA 02115; msamuels@partners.org

Dr. Samuels reported that he has no financial relationships that pose a potential conflict of interest with this article.

This article is adapted from “Introduction to Neurocardiology” by Martin A. Samuels, chapter 43 in: Mathias CJ, Bannister R, eds. Autonomic Failure: A Textbook of Clinical Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System, 4th ed; 1999:421–427, by permission of Oxford University Press (www.oup.co.uk).

Martin A. Samuels, MD, DSc (hon), FAAN, MACP
Neurologist-in-Chief and Chairman, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Correspondence: Martin A. Samuels, MD, Neurologist-in-Chief, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, BB204, Boston, MA 02115; msamuels@partners.org

Dr. Samuels reported that he has no financial relationships that pose a potential conflict of interest with this article.

This article is adapted from “Introduction to Neurocardiology” by Martin A. Samuels, chapter 43 in: Mathias CJ, Bannister R, eds. Autonomic Failure: A Textbook of Clinical Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System, 4th ed; 1999:421–427, by permission of Oxford University Press (www.oup.co.uk).