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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 22.
Published in final edited form as: Epileptic Disord. 2016 Sep 1;18(Suppl 2):3–10. doi: 10.1684/epd.2016.0834

Figure 5.

Figure 5

James Ramsay Hunt (1874–1937). After studying in Philadelphia, Paris, Berlin and Vienna, James Ramsay Hunt practised and taught neurology in New York City (Cornell University and Columbia University). His name is associated with a small cutaneous zone innervated by the ganglion geniculi. His contribution to the field of PME from 1914 onward was the source of great confusion; from his area of low prevalence, he selected several unrelated cases with myoclonus (and other symptoms). The term “Ramsay Hunt Syndrome”, when applied to a neurological condition with myoclonus, was used to refer to many disparate entities. The term is no longer in use, following the delimitation of discrete PME types.