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Bernhard von gudden, neuro-ophthalmology and the munich school of neuroanatomy and psychiatry.

Danek A

Department of Neurology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany.

Bernhard von Gudden, psychiatrist to the Royal House of Bavaria (1824-1886), had studied ocular torsion by means of self-observation in the mirror and with the help of after-images for his dissertation of 1848, but later turned to experimental neuroanatomy. Several findings are connected with his name, among them the transverse peduncular tract, part of the accessory optic system. August Forel, Emil Kraepelin and Franz Nissl belonged to his Munich school that took neuroanatomical research as a guiding principle for scientific psychiatry.

Published 12 December 2006 in Strabismus, 14(4): 211-6.
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