Adolf Wallenberg
Adolf Wallenberg (10 November 1862 – 10 April 1949) was a German
neurologist
.
Wallenberg was born 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.[2] He emigrated to Great Britain in 1938, then relocated to the United States in 1943, where he died several years later in Manteno, Illinois.[3]
While working with Ludwig Edinger he described the avian brain, and also examined the role of the olfactory system in the assessment, recognition, and ingestion of food.[4]
He described the clinical manifestations (1895) and the autopsy findings (1901) in occlusions of the arteria cerebelli posterior inferior (Wallenberg's syndrome).[5][6]
With Edinger, and later alone, he published the "Jahresberichte über die Leistungen auf dem Gebiete der Anatomie des Zentralnervensystems" (1895–1928).cerebral hemorrhage or cerebral metabolism.[7]
Associated eponym
- Wallenberg's syndrome: (Synonyms: dorsolateral medullary syndrome, lateral bulbar syndrome, lateral medullary infarction syndrome, posteroinferior cerebellar artery syndrome): A complex of symptoms caused by occlusion of the posterior inferior cerebellar artery, resulting in sensory and sympathetic disturbances, cerebellar ataxy, etc.[6][8]
References
- Marianne Wallenberg-Chermak: Adolf Wallenberg. In Kurt Kolle (Hrsg.): Große Nervenärzte, Band 3. Georg Thieme: Stuttgart - New York, 1963.
- ^ Sabine Hildebrandt, The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science during the Third Reich, Berghahn Books (2016), p. 98
- S2CID 44673671.
- ^ a b Thibaut - Zycha, Volume 10 edited by Walther Killy
- ^ Eminent Neuroscientists Their Lives and Works by Kalyan B Bhattacharyya
- ^ Clinical Neuroanatomy: Brain Circuitry and Its Disorders by Hans J. ten Donkelaar
- ^ a b Wallenberg's syndrome Who Named It
- ^ "Preise der DGN: Adolf Wallenberg-Preis". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-02-23.
- ^ Lateral medullary syndrome (Wallenberg syndrome)
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