German-Austrian psychiatrist, neuropathologist and anatomist
Theodor Meynert
Born
Theodor Hermann Meynert
(1833-06-15)15 June 1833
Dresden
Died
31 May 1892(1892-05-31) (aged 58)
Klosterneuburg
Nationality
Austrian
Alma mater
University of Vienna
Known for
Cytoarchitectonics
Scientific career
Fields
Neuropathology
Institutions
University of Vienna
Theodor Hermann Meynert (15 June 1833 – 31 May 1892) was a German-Austrian psychiatrist, neuropathologist, and anatomist born in Dresden. Meynert believed that disturbances in brain development could be a predisposition for psychiatric illness and that certain psychoses are reversible.
In 1861 he earned his medical doctorate, and in 1875 became director of the psychiatric clinic associated with the University of Vienna. Some of his better known students in Vienna were Josef Breuer, Sigmund Freud, who in 1883 worked at Meynert's psychiatric clinic, and Julius Wagner-Jauregg, who introduced fever treatment for syphilis. Meynert later distanced himself from Freud because of the latter's involvement with practices such as hypnosis. Meynert also ridiculed Freud's idea of male hysteria; though some authors believe this to be due to his own hidden suffering of the illness, prompting a reconciliation with Freud near to his death.[1] Other famous students of Meynert's were Russian neuropsychiatrist Sergei Korsakoff (1854–1900), German neuropathologist Carl Wernicke (1848–1905) and Swiss neuroanatomist Auguste-Henri Forel (1848–1931). Meynert's work was an important influence in the career of German neuropathologist Paul Flechsig (1847–1929).
^Fancher, R., E. (1996). Pioneers of Psychology (3rd eds). Norton and Company Inc., London/New York
Theodor Hermann Meynert (15 June 1833 – 31 May 1892) was a German-Austrian psychiatrist, neuropathologist, and anatomist born in Dresden. Meynert believed...
cholinergic function are limited. The nucleus basalis is named after TheodorMeynert. Meynert originally called this group of cells the 'ganglion of the ansa...
upper cervical segments of the spinal cord. It was first named by TheodorMeynert in 1872. The solitary tract is made up of primary sensory fibers and...
Kussmaul, Arnold Pick, Paul Flechsig, Hermann Munk, Carl Nothnagel, TheodorMeynert, and linguist Heymann Steinthal, among others. Ideomotor apraxia was...
medial longitudinal fasciculus as the acusticus. This was followed by TheodorMeynert in 1872 calling it posterior. In 1891, Heinrich Schutz chose the name...
dealt with the correlation between physical and mental illnesses. With TheodorMeynert (1833-1892), he was co-founder of the quarterly psychiatric journal...
Friedrich Otto Westphal, TheodorMeynert, Jean-Martin Charcot, and John Hughlings Jackson. Later, in 1885, Sachs translated Meynert's classic treatise Psychiatrie...
Wernicke was influenced by TheodorMeynert, his mentor, who postulated that aphasias were due to perisylvian lesions. Meynert also distinguished between...
divide the human cortex into areas according to the cytoarchitecture by TheodorMeynert, Vladimir Betz, Alfred Walter Campbell, Grafton Elliot Smith and Korbinian...
Neumann sent him to Vienna for six months to study with neuropathologist TheodorMeynert, who would have a profound influence upon Wernicke's career. In 1875...
such as Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), Paul Emil Flechsig (1847–1929), TheodorMeynert (1833–1892), Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890), Emil du Bois-Reymond...
slices for examination. It is credited to the Viennese psychiatrist TheodorMeynert (1833–1892), who in 1867 noticed regional variations in the histological...
University of Vienna. Having graduated in 1881, he worked as assistant of TheodorMeynert at the psychiatric department of the General Hospital. In 1878, he...
clinic. During this time, he visited Vienna, where he was a pupil of TheodorMeynert. He was ordinarius of neurology and psychiatry from 1899 until his...
went to Europe to study in the company of Baron Carl von Rokitansky, TheodorMeynert and John Hughlings Jackson. He then attended Harvard Medical School...
relations with the philosopher Franz Brentano and the psychiatrist TheodorMeynert. Bernfeld undertook research to help Jones and corrected the drafts...
publishes The Physiology and Pathology of Mind. Viennese psychiatrist TheodorMeynert observes variations in the cytoarchitecture of the brain. Yellow fever...
doctorate at Prague. In 1887 he traveled to Vienna in order to work with TheodorMeynert (1833–1892), who was to become an important influence to Anton's medical...
studied under TheodorMeynert (1833-1892), where he did his first comparative study of the thalamus. Forel was disappointed by Meynert. In Zurich he was...
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