[2] He became interested in neurology, and worked in Berlin, Vienna, Munich and Paris for a year on a travelling scholarship.
He subsequently served as neurological specialist to the 7th General Hospital,[2] where he advised on management of head injured patients.
[2][5] In 1932 Adie was one of the founders of the Association of British Neurologists, which was formed at a meeting on 28 July at the house of Gordon Holmes.
[6] Adie was known as an excellent teacher of medicine and a fine diagnostician with extraordinary powers of observation.
[6] Adie also published articles on pupillary abnormalities,[7] "forced grasping and groping" in frontal lobe disorders,[8] and narcolepsy.