Ides Dehaene died on 18 April 2018. He was born in Bruges in November 1941 as the second son of the neuropsychiatrist Albert Dehaene; his older brother would later become prime minister of Belgium. As he was not so rebellious as his brother, he was allowed to go to Greek–Latin High School at the Sint Lodewijkscollege in Bruges. In 1966, he obtained his degree of medical doctor at the Catholic University of Leuven magna cum laude. From September 1966 to August 1968, he specialized in neurology and psychiatry at the St. Radboud Hospital, Catholic University of Nijmegen (The Netherlands) under Prof. Dr. J. J. G. Prick. From August 1968 to August 1970, he went to the Academic Hospital St. Raphael of the Catholic University of Leuven (Prof. Dr. Raymond Vandenbergh) for further specialization in neurology. He stayed 1 more year at Leuven during the absence of Herwig Carton. In July 1971, he was appointed as neurologist at the General Hospital St. Jan in Bruges.
