Paul Flechsig

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Paul Emil Flechsig (June 29, 1847 - July 22, 1929) was a German neuroanatomist and neuropathologist. Born in Zwickau, he spent over fifty years of his medical career at the University of Leipzig. Although Flechsig contributed much in regards to his study of neurological disorders, he is mainly remembered today concerning his research regarding the development of the brain and spinal cord (myelogenesis).

At the University of Leipzig, is the The "Paul-Flechsig-Institute of Brain Research", an institution established in 1974 in tribute to Flechsig. The institute's scientific emphases is on cellular and molecular aspects of neurodegenerative diseases and glial reactions in the brain and the retina.

A neurological structure which conveys proprioceptive information from the body to the cerebellum is called the Flechsig's fasciculus or Flechsig's tract.

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