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For Luigi Amaducci, 1932–1998 Luigi Amaducci was a key figure for the world neurological and psychiatric community. Like the great intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance before him, he not only looked back at history for inspiration but also produced ideas that will influence generations to come. Luigi was a clinician with sensitivity, a scholar of breadth, and a friend of considerable influence to many workers in this field. In our efforts to engage the ideas of the world and the world of ideas, few individuals have been as influential as Luigi. He was a politician and a diplomat in the finest senses of the words. Luigi was led to studies of dementia by more than his formal education at the Medical School of the University of Padua and his postdoctoral studies in the United States. He was the son and the grandson of physicians who specialized in diseases of the brain. His maternal grandfather, Aleardo Salerni, was the neuropsychiatrist in charge of the Mental Hospital in San Servolo in Venice. In 1908 he published an article, ‘‘Di alcune analogie sintomatiche tra la demenza precoce e la demenza senile,’’ referencing Kraepelin’s studies and other reports. Luigi’s father, Giovanni Amaducci, was a neuropsychiatrist in Verona, where Luigi was born. At Luigi’s last working session with his close friend and frequent collaborator Katherine Bick, he showed her the black leatherette-covered notebook in which his father had written the directions for the Bielschowsky and Alzheimer methods for staining that he had received from Heidenhain on the latter’s visit to Verona. Is it any wonder, then, that Luigi Amaducci had a deep, intuitive grasp of the flow of history in the discoveries that enlighten our lives? Luigi will be honored and remembered in many different ways. We hope that the dedication of this book to him will gratify his family, his friends and colleagues, and his spirit. Although Luigi’s illness made it impossible for him to attend the conference on which this book is based, his work was nonetheless a focal point and an inspiration for the participants. With gratitude for his contributions to both this book and our field, we honor his memory with this dedication. —Peter J. Whitehouse & Katherine L. Bick This page intentionally left blank ...

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