Belahsen Mohammed Faouzi

Neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and semiology constitute the foundations and the basis for understanding neurology. The difficulty students face with neurology is largely based on the initial struggle they had in assimilating these fundamental disciplines. As a neurology teacher at the Faculty of Medicine since 2003, I have tried throughout these years, by all means, to make this specialty much more accessible and attractive.

Numerous doctoral theses have been dedicated to the illustration, simplification, and schematization of various neurology concepts, serving as a widely used tool by students of our faculty and even other faculties across the kingdom for better learning of neurology.

Subsequently, it was necessary to tackle a major project: neurophysiology.

We therefore entrusted this work to Mr. Mohamed Benbrahim with the initial objective of preparing a neurophysiology pedagogical tool capable of helping students better assimilate this discipline. The choice of Mr. Benbrahim was not accidental, as during his time in the neurology department as an extern, we had already sensed certain qualities of rigor and self-sacrifice necessary for carrying out this type of work. It must be admitted that the result and the work achieved have exceeded all our expectations. Both in terms of scientific content quality and technical quality, this work remains unique in the world.

Strangely, this is the thesis project where I personally did not have to provide much supervisory effort. Mr. Benbrahim, starting from the principle that to simplify concepts one must always go into the finest details, made an enormous effort in collecting international information and documentation. The second special feature of this project is that Mr. Benbrahim also handled the technical side.

Seeing the result, one can only be filled with admiration. This is the fruit of hundreds of hours of work. We also detect in Mr. Benbrahim that flair and passion for teaching and pedagogy. We are proud of this work and happy for the students who will use it throughout the world.