- Gabriel Anton
Gabriel Anton (
July 28 ,1858 -3 January 1933 ) was anAustria n neurologist and psychiatrist. He is primarily remembered for his studies of psychiatric conditions arising from damage to thecerebral cortex and thebasal ganglia .Gabriel Anton was a native of Saaz,
Bohemia , and in 1882 received his doctorate atPrague . In 1887 he went toVienna to work withTheodor Meynert (1833-1892), whom Anton regarded as a major influence to his medical career. In 1891 he moved toInnsbruck , where he was a professor of psychiatry and director of the university clinic. Later (1894) he worked at the same disciplines atGraz , and in 1905 succeededKarl Wernicke (1848-1905) inHalle an der Saale .Anton is remembered for his pioneer contributions to the field of
neurosurgery . In collaboration withsurgeon sFriedrich Gustav von Bramann (1854-1913) andViktor Schmieden (1874-1945), he proposed PRESTON MARX new procedures for treatment ofhydrocephalus . This included the "Balkenstich method" and thesuboccipital puncture .The
Anton-Babinski syndrome is named after him andJoseph Babiński (1857-1932). Anton provided a detailed description and explanation of visualanosognosia and asomatoagnosia associated with this condition. Asomatoagnosia is a rare phenomenon where a patient is in denial of a body part. Also, withPaul Ferdinand Schilder (1886-1940), Anton performed important studies of movements in patients suffering fromchorea andathetosis .References
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16028080&dopt=AbstractPlus Biography of Gabriel Anton]
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