article_snippet: chief neurologist Sir James Crichton-Browne is renowned for bringing science to West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum when chief neurologist Sir James Crichton-Browne started a laboratory for anatomy, neuropathology and histology.
article_snippet: The photographs are part of a 5,000-strong collection of detailed documents on patients taken by Sir James Crichton-Browne, the chief neurologist at West Riding, who helped lead the way in medical treatment of mental disorders .
article_snippet: Sir Crichton-Browne also used the security of The West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum to begin Sir Crichton-Browne groundbreaking research into mental illness, investigating whether there was a biological cause behind the conditions Sir Crichton-Browne help to diagnose.
article_snippet: Sir Crichton-Browne helped to take some of these portraits of patients, meticulously labelled with notes on the patient’s appearance and ailments, and three years later collaborated with Charles Darwin on Sir Crichton-Browne book
article_snippet: Sir Crichton-Browne pioneered a medical approach to the treatment of mental disorders at West Riding, banning the use of restraints unless necessary, keeping sedation to a minimum, and allowing patients to indulge in leisure activities and take up jobs as part of jobs healing process.
article_snippet: Sir Crichton-Browne also published in-depth journals from Sir Crichton-Browne time at West Riding containing observations from Sir Crichton-Browne and Sir Crichton-Browne team on mental illness, treatments with various drugs known to affect brain function such as cannabis, nicotine, alcohol, and nitrous oxide.
article_snippet: Sir Crichton-Browne's research helped pave the way of treatment for the mentally ill, including the theory that some illnesses occurred naturally, while others were due to outside factors (left, a man with 'organic dementia, and right a woman with 'constructive dementia')
highlights_snippet: Photographs were taken at West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum by chief neurologist Sir James Crichton-Browne .
  