- Ernst Sträussler
Ernst Sträussler (
June 17 ,1872 - 1959) was an Austrianneuropathologist who was a native of theMoravia n city of Ungarisch-Hradisch.In 1895 he earned his medical doctorate at the
University of Vienna , and afterwards worked at the psychiatric clinic ofJulius Wagner-Jauregg (1857-1940). In 1907 he was habiliated for psychiatry andneurology inPrague , where in 1915 he attained the title of professorextraordinary . In 1919 he returned toVienna .Sträussler is remembered for his work in forensic psychiatry, as well as his research involving the
histopathology of thecentral nervous system . With neurologist Georg Koskinas (1885-1975) he performed important studies involvingmalaria inoculations as a type of therapy for dementia paralytica.In 1936 with neurologists
Josef Gerstmann (1887-1969) and Ilya Scheinker (1902-1954), he described a rareprion disease that is a familial form of progressive dementia. Today this condition is known asGerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS).References
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