- Heinrich Lissauer
Heinrich Lissauer (
September 12 ,1861 -September 21 ,1891 ) was a Germanneurologist who was born inNeidenburg (todayNidzica ,Poland ). He studied at the Universities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Leipzig. He was a neurologist at the psychiatric hospital inBreslau , and was a one-time assistant toCarl Wernicke .Lissauer is known for his description of the
posterolateral tract of thespinal cord which was to become known as "Lissauer's tract". Another eponymous term associated with Lissauer is "Lissauer's paralysis", which is an apoplectic type of generalparesis . He also published an influential treatise onvisual agnosia , which was called "Seelenblindheit" in 19th century German medicine, and it roughly translates to "soul blindness". Lissauer died inHallstatt ,Austria on September 21, 1891 at the age of 30.Written works
* "Beitrag zum Faserverlauf im Hinterhorn des menschlichen Rückenmarks und zum Verhalten desselben bei Tabes Dorsalis"
* "Ein Fall von Seelenblindheit, nebst einem Beitrag zur Theorie derselben". In: Archiv fur Psychiatrie und. Nervenkrankheiten, Jg. 21 (1890), S. 222-270.
* "Sehhügelveränderungen bei progressiver Paralyse". In: Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, Jg. 16 (1890).References
* "This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia".
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