Ernst Sträussler

Ernst Sträussler (June 17, 1872, Ungarisch-Hradisch - July 11, 1959, Vienna) was an Austrian neuropathologist born in the Moravian city of Ungarisch-Hradisch.

In 1895 he earned his medical doctorate at the University of Vienna, and afterwards worked at the psychiatric clinic of Julius Wagner-Jauregg (1857 - 1940). In 1907 he was habiliated for psychiatry and neurology in Prague, where in 1915 he attained the title of professor extraordinary. In 1919 he returned to Vienna.[1]

Sträussler is remembered for his work in forensic psychiatry, as well as his research involving the histopathology of the central nervous system.[1] With neurologist Georg Koskinas (1885-1975) he performed important studies involving malaria inoculations as a type of therapy for progressive general paresis.[2]

In 1936 with neurologists Josef Gerstmann (1887 - 1969) and Ilya Scheinker (1902 - 1954), he described a rare prion disease that is usually regarded as a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Today this condition is known as Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome (GSS).[3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Ernst Sträussler @ Who Named It
  2. Triarhou LC (December 2005). "Georg N. Koskinas (1885-1975) and his scientific contributions to the normal and pathological anatomy of the human brain". Brain Research Bulletin 68 (3): 121–39. doi:10.1016/j.brainresbull.2005.08.012. PMID 16325012.
  3. A Dictionary of Psychology by Andrew M. Colman


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