ADHD - An Illustrated historical overview

A longside the protagonists of the Second Viennese Medical School , Theodor Meynert (who described the basal nucleus named for him) and Julius Wag- ner-Jauregg (Nobel laureate 1927), the cosmopolitan Constantin von Economo (1876–1931) made significant contributions to neuroscience. He was born in Romania, the son of a wealthy Greek family who later moved to Trieste and finally settled in Vienna where von Economo spent most of his aca- demic career, although he studied some years abroad in Munich, Berlin and at La Salpêtrière in Paris. Among his teachers were some of the most prominent scientist of the beginning 20 th century, Alois Alzheimer, Emil Kraepelin, Hermann Oppenheim, Theodor Ziehen, Pierre Marie and Fulgence Raymond. His own masterpiece was the seminal description of encephalitis lethargica in 1917, including accounts of the neuropathological basis and its clinical spectrum. Subsequent work explored its role as a major trigger of postencephalitic parkin- sonism as its late sequela. Von Economo also made important contributions to the cytoarchitectonics of the cerebral cortex and sleep regulation and served as military pilot in WW1. Constantin von Economo Constantin von Economo in 1910. Source: Wikimedia Commons.