Károly Schaffer

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Károly Schaffer (September 7, 1864October 16, 1939) was a Hungarian anatomist and neurologist. He was born in Vienna. The axon projection from CA3 to CA1 neurons in hippocampus, Schaffer collateral, is named after him.

He was involved in the early studies of Tay-Sachs disease.[1]

[edit] Authored Books

  • Über das morphologische Wesen und die Histopathologie der hereditär-systematischen Nervenkrankheiten (Berlin, 1926)
  • Az elmebetegségek és kapcsolatos idegbetegségek kórtana (Pathology of mental diseases and their related nervous disorders. Budapest, 1927)
  • Anatomische Wesenbestimmung der hereditär-organischen Nerven-Geisteskrankheiten (With Dezsö Miskolczy. Szeged, 1936)
  • Histopathologie des Neurons (Budapest-Leipzig, 1938)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Baran B, Bitter I, Fink M, Gazdag G, Shorter E (December 2007). "Károly Schaffer and his school: The birth of biological psychiatry in Hungary, 1890-1940". Eur. Psychiatry. doi:10.1016/j.eurpsy.2007.10.003. PMID 18078742. 

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NAME Károly Schaffer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION anatomist and neurologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1864
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1939
PLACE OF DEATH
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