Konstantin Tretiakoff

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Konstantin Tretiakoff (December 26, 1892 - 1958) was a Russian neuropathologist. He was born in Fergana, Uzbekistan, as a son of military physician, member of Pierre Bonvalot's first Pamir expedition. He studied medicine in L'Assistance Publique des Hopitaux de Paris. He received his doctorate in 1919. In his thesis he described degeneration of substantia nigra associated with paralysis agitans (Parinson's disease); Tretiakof was first to link this anatomic structure with parkinsonism. Between 1922 and 1926 Tretiakoff worked in Brasil. In 1931 he was appointed Chairman to the new Department of Neuropathology at the Medical Institute in Saratov, USSR, where he spend rest of his life.

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