Background
Campbell was born at Cunningham Plains, near Harden, New South Wales.
Campbell was born at Cunningham Plains, near Harden, New South Wales.
University of Edinburgh.
At age 18, he enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to study medicine, graduating four years later in 1889. Campbell worked in London, Vienna and Prague, developing his neurological speciality. He became fluent in French, German and Italian.
In 1892, Campbell was awarded a doctorate by the University of Edinburgh for his thesis The Pathology of Alcoholic Insanity.
Campbell"s longest post in the United Kingdom was the thirteen years he spent working at Rainhill Asylum, Liverpool. He was Resident Medical Officer and Directory of the Pathology Laboratory.
During his time there, Campbell and the laboratory became internationally known, leading to visitors from all parts of the world. At the age of 37, in 1905, he returned to Australia and lived in Sydney.
His focus shifted from neuroanatomy and neuropathology to working clinically as a neurologist.
Campbell enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force and served as Major in the army in Egypt during the First World War. On his return, he studied the "Australian disease", which later became known as Murray Valley encephalitis. He died, of cancer, in his home at Rose Bay, New South Wales.
Campbell, AW (1894).
"Degenerations consequent on experimental lesions of the cerebellum.". British Medical Journal 2: 641–642.
Campbell, AW (1894). "A Contribution to the Morbid Anatomy and Pathology of the Neuro-muscular Changes in General Paresis of the Insane".
Journal of Mental Science 40: 177–195. doi:10.1192/bjp.40.169.177. Campbell, AW (1894). "On vacuolation of the nerve cell of the human cerebral cortex".
Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology 2 (3): 380–393. doi:10.1002/path.1700020308. Campbell, AW (1905). Histological Studies on the Localisation of Cerebral Function.
Cambridge University Press.
Campbell, AW (1906). "Cerebral sclerosis". Brain 28 (3–4): 367–437. doi:10.1093/brain/28.3-4.367.
He became a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1907.