International Society for the History of the Neurosciences (ISHN). From 1987 to 1995, he was chairman of the Migraine Trust. Between 1988 and 1991, he was the medical advisor to the Motor Neurone Disease Association, an organisation he co-founded, and was chairman of its research committee. In 1992, he was made an honorary member of the Neurological Society of Thailand, the Austrian Society of Neurology and the Mexican Association for the Study of Headache. In his book Neurology of the arts: painting, music, literature (2004), he included Van Gogh's likely ailments. He co-authored with Marek Gawel a book for patients Migraine the Facts. Of the greater than 70 volumes of books either coauthored or edited by Rose, his last was the History of British Neurology, published in 2011. Awards and honours In 1983, Rose was elected president of the Medical Society of London, and in 1990 he became president of the section of clinical neurosciences of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was also a member of the Osler Club of London, and was a liveryman of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries. In 1986, Rose received the Distinguished Clinician Award from the American Association for the Study of Headache. He received their Harold Wolff Award twice. In 2002, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the ISHN. Personal life Three days after returning from a trip to the United States in 1963, Rose met musician, Angela Juliet Halsted. They were engaged two weeks later and after a further three months, were married. They had three sons. In 2006, they moved to Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire, where 12 years earlier, he had organised the unveiling of a blue plaque at Thomas Willis's birthplace. Death Rose died on 1 November 2012, age 86. His obituary was published in The Times, Munk's Roll, the British Medical Journal, Cephalalgia, and the Journal of the History of the Neurosciences: Basic and Clinical Perspectives. His autobiography, By Any Other Name, was published posthumously. Selected publications Books (Co-authored with Marek Gawel) (Co-authored with Stuart Neilson) By any other name: An autobiography. CreateSpace, 2015. (Edited by Angela Rose) Articles (Joint author) (Joint author) (Joint author) References External links F. C. Rose; Publications via PubMed 1926 births 2012 deaths British neurologists Jewish physicians People from London English people of Romanian-Jewish descent English autobiographers