Mário Corino da Costa Andrade (10 June 1906 in Moura – 16 June 2005 in

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) was a leading twentieth century Portuguese

neurologist Neurology (from , "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the ...

and researcher who first described the familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) syndrome that later came to be associated with his name (Corino de Andrade disease). Corino was a founder of the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, a major bioscience research institute located in

. A staunch opponent of the Salazar regime, Andrade was imprisoned by the Portuguese Secret Police (

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) for belonging to a political group critical of the government. He spent a great deal of time collaborating with scientists abroad and had a profound effect on the structure and organization of the current healthcare system in northern Portugal.

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