The remarkable domestic neurologist Vladimir Karlovich Roth (the 165th anniversary of his birth)

V.K. Roth, a student of A.J. Kozhevnikov, is among the most prominent representatives of the Moscow neurological school. His name is related to the establishment of the department and clinics of medical faculty of Moscow University, Moscow Scientific Society of Neurologists and Psychiatrists, "The S.S. Korsakov Journal of Neurology and Psychiatry”. He enriched the clinical semiotics of syringomyelia, was one of the first researchers limb-girdle muscular dystrophy. He was described lndependently and the first time supranuclear ophthalmoplegia and neuralgia of the external femoral cutaneous nerve, was provided polioencephalomielitis the first.