Emil Redlich (18 January 1866 – 9 June 1930) was an

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Edward Shorter, ''A Historical Dictionary of Psychiatry'', Oxford University Press (2005), p. 265

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born in

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. In 1889 he received his doctorate from the

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, and later performed

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research of the brain at Heinrich Obersteiner’s institute. In 1895 he was a medical assistant at

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's neurological institute, and in 1898 became head of a private mental institution in Inzersdorf, outside of

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. In 1914 he was appointed director of the ''Nervenheilanstalt Maria-Theresia-Schlössel'' in Vienna. His name is associated with Redlich–Obersteiner's zone; the anatomical location where the

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meets the

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. He also described a type of abortive disseminated

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with lesions scattered throughout the

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and brain. This disorder was to become known as "Redlich–Flatau syndrome", named along with

Edward Flatau Edward Flatau (27 December 1868, Płock – 7 June 1932, Warsaw) was a Polish neurologist and psychiatrist. He was a co-founder of the modern Polish neurology, an authority on the physiology and pathology of meningitis, co-founder of medical ...

(1868–1932), who stated that a

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could be the cause of the disease.

Bibliography

* ''Die Pathologie der tabischen Hinterstrangserkrankungen''.

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, 1897. * ''Die spastische Spinalparalyse und die hereditäre spastische Spinalparalyse''. – On spastic spinal paralysis and hereditary spastic spinal paralysis. * ''Über multiple Sklerose''. – On multiple sclerosis. * ''Neuere Untersuchungsbehelfe in der Diagnostik der Hirnkrankheiten''. In: Deutsche Klinik, volume 6, 1;

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and Vienna, 1906. * ''Die Krankheiten des Rückenmarks''. (with Heinrich Obersteiner), In: Wilhelm Ebstein (1836–1912) and Gustav Albert Schwalbe (1844–1916) – publishers: Handbuch der praktischen Medizin, in Verbindung mit Zahlreichen Gelehrten. Stuttgart, 1906. * ''Die Psychosen bei Gehirnerkrankungen''. In: Handbuch der Psychiatrie, spez. T., part 3, 2, 1; Leipzig and Vienna, 1912. * ''Hirntumor''. In: Handbuch der Neurologie, volume 3, Berlin, 1912. * ''Uber Rückbildungserscheinungen bei fällen mit dem klinischen bilde der gehirngeschwulst''.

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and Vienna, 1913 * ''Epilepsie''. In: Handbuch der Neurologie, supplementary volume, Berlin, 1920.

References

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