Grundlagenforschung
The central themes of clinical research were epilepsy, cerebro-vascular diseases, viral encephalitis, aphasia. Basic research dealt especially with states of consciousness, physiology of the thalamus, conditioned reflexes a.s.o. From the initial anatomo-clinical orientation, Romanian neurology evolved to a neurophysiological one, involving such modern topics as neurochemistry, neurogenetics and neuropsychology.