100 Years of JAMA Neurology and the Journey Back to the Beginning

We would like to take a moment to recognize the 100th anniversary of JAMA Neurology, which was first launched by the American Medical Association in 1919 as the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry. In the immediate aftermath of World War I, the table of contents of the first issue (Figure) reflected a medical community dealing with the realities of acute neurologic and psychiatric injuries, as well as lingering conditions, in those who returned from the battlefront. Articles advancing treatments of “so-called ‘shell shock’” and “war neuroses” sit comfortably next to a piece on the histogenesis of multiple sclerosis. In the issues that followed over the next few months, observations ranged from the neurological manifestations of and new therapies for syphilis to attempts to treat what was likely schizophrenia using injections of sodium chloride, as well as detailed descriptions of wartime spinal cord and peripheral nerve injuries. The first volume’s issues were groundbreaking and robust for the time, with great relevance to the practicing physician—certainly an impressive accomplishment for such a fledgling journal.

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