Adolf Wallenberg (10 November 1862 – 10 April 1949) was a German

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. Wallenberg was born in Preussisch Stargard into a

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family. He studied at the universities of

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, receiving his doctorate from the latter institution in 1886. From 1886 to 1888 he worked as an assistant in the Städtisches Krankenhaus in Danzig, where he settled as a practitioner. From 1907 to 1928 he served as director of the internal medicine department at the hospital, attaining the title of professor in 1910. When the Nazis came to power, he was stripped of his research laboratory and forced to stop working because he was Jewish. He emigrated to Great Britain in 1938, then relocated to the United States in 1943, where he died several years later in

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he described the avian brain, and also examined the role of the

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in the assessment, recognition, and ingestion of food. He described the clinical manifestations (1895) and the autopsy findings (1901) in occlusions of the '' arteria cerebelli posterior inferior'' (Wallenberg's syndrome).Wallenberg's syndrome
Who Named It With Edinger, and later alone, he published the "''Jahresberichte über die Leistungen auf dem Gebiete der Anatomie des Zentralnervensystems''" (1895–1928). From 1996 until 2019 the "Adolf Wallenberg-Preis" was awarded by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Neurologie for outstanding contributions made in the field of

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or cerebral metabolism.

Associated eponym

Wallenberg's syndrome Lateral medullary syndrome is a neurological disorder causing a range of symptoms due to ischemia in the lateral part of the medulla oblongata in the brainstem. The ischemia is a result of a blockage most commonly in the vertebral artery or the po ...

: (Synonyms: dorsolateral medullary syndrome, lateral bulbar syndrome, lateral medullary infarction syndrome, posteroinferior cerebellar artery syndrome): A complex of symptoms caused by occlusion of the

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, resulting in sensory and sympathetic disturbances, cerebellar ataxy, etc.Lateral medullary syndrome (Wallenberg syndrome)
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References

* Marianne Wallenberg-Chermak: ''Adolf Wallenberg''. In Kurt Kolle (Hrsg.): ''Große Nervenärzte'', Band 3. Georg Thieme: Stuttgart - New York, 1963. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wallenberg, Adolf 1862 births 1949 deaths People from Starogard Gdański Physicians from the Province of Prussia German Jews German neurologists German military doctors Heidelberg University alumni Leipzig University alumni Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom