Moriz Probst (1 October 1867 in
Deutschlandsberg
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- 21 March 1923 in
Vienna
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) was an Austrian
psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their ...
and
neuroanatomist
Neuroanatomy is the study of the structure and organization of the nervous system. In contrast to animals with radial symmetry, whose nervous system consists of a distributed network of cells, animals with bilateral symmetry have segregated, defi ...
. He is best known for first description of so-called
Probst bundles, the anomalous brain structures found in
dysgenesis of corpus callosum.
He studied medicine in
Graz
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, after graduation he worked as an assistant in Neuropsychiatric Clinic in Graz under
Gabriel Anton
Gabriel Anton (28 July 1858 – 3 January 1933) was an Austrian neurology, neurologist and psychiatry, psychiatrist. He is primarily remembered for his studies of psychiatric conditions arising from damage to the cerebral cortex and the basal gang ...
. Later he was affiliated with
Wiener Irrenanstalt
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. Since 1900 he practised as forensic psychiatrist in Vienna. He worked also in Landesirrenanstalt neuroanatomical laboratory.
Selected works
* ''Physiologische, anatomische und pathologisch-anatomische Untersuchungen des Sehhügels''. Archiv für Psychiatrie und Nervenkrankheiten 33: 721-817 (1900)
* ''Zur Anatomie und Physiologie experimentaler Zwischenhirnverletzungen''. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Nervenheilkunde XVII (1900)
* ''Zur Kenntniss der Pyramidenbahn. Normale und anormale Pyramidenbündel und Reizversuche der Kleinhirnrinde''. Monatsschr. f. Psychiatrie u. Neurologie (1899)
* ''Über vom Vierhügel, von der Brücke und vom Kleinhirn absteigende Bahnen''. Deutsche Zeitschr. f. Nervenheilkunde. Bd. XV.
* ''Über einen Fall vollständiger Rindenblindheit und vollständiger Amusie''. Monatschrift f Psych u Neurol IX, 1 (1901)
* ''Über Anatomie und Physiologie des Kleinhirns''. Arch für Psychiatrie 35, 3, 692-777 (1902)
* ''Über den Bau des vollständig balkenlosen Gross-hirnes sowie über Mikrogyrie und Heterotopie der grauen Substanz'' (1901)
* ''Zur Anatomie und Physiologie des Kleinhirns'' (1902)
Bibliography
* Fischer I: ''Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden Ärzte der letzten fünfzig Jahre''. T. 2. München-Berlin: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1962, P. 1250.
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1867 births
1923 deaths
Austrian psychiatrists