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Franz Gerstenbrand (born September 6, 1924 in Hof , North Moravia , Czechoslovakia ; † June 30, 2017 in Vienna ) was an Austrian neurologist and university professor . He was the first to recognize that patients diagnosed with apallic disease are not brain dead and, with his research, laid the foundations for modern rehabilitation . He is recognized worldwide as a capacity for the disease " apallic syndrome " and is the founder of Austrian coma research. Today his findings are u. a. used in international space travel .

Life

Gerstenbrand was born on September 6, 1924 as the son of a district doctor in Hof in Northern Moravia. The father came from Gnadlersdorf near Znaim and the mother from Schattau . Shortly after his birth, the family moved back to South Moravia to settle in Untertannowitz near Nikolsburg . There he went to elementary school and then to high school in Nikolsburg. After school, he was drafted in 1942 and joined the Air Force . After the end of the war he came back from captivity. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in 1950. He had to pay three times the tuition fee because as a former South Moravian he was considered stateless. He then completed his specialist training under Hans Hoff at the Psychiatric-Neurological University Clinic Vienna, where he also worked as assistant to the board. In 1967 Gerstenbrand published his habilitation thesis "The Traumatic Apallic Syndrome" , which received worldwide attention. He was particularly interested in the areas of traumatology, long-term coma after brain and spinal cord injuries and the early detection of brain damage in child neurology.

In 1973 he was appointed associate professor and in 1975 full professor . Also in 1975 he took over the position of Primarius of the 2nd Department of the Neurological Hospital of the City of Vienna - Rosenhügel . In 1976 he became professor of neurology at the Medical University of Innsbruck and head of the local neurological university clinic, which he headed until his retirement in 1994 and expanded it into an international institution of world renown.

Gerstenbrand introduced the first computer tomograph in Austria and was already one of the world's leading personalities for extrapyramidal motor diseases (including Parkinson's and strokes ). He succeeded in waking coma patients and helping them with neuro-rehabilitation. From 1986 he worked with Russian space experts , NASA and ESA on research into the effects of space on the human body. In 1991, following his international mediation, the plan for an Austrian crew member in a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft was put into practice as part of the so-called Austromir project. Even after his retirement in 1994, he remained as co-director of the Boltzmann Institute for Restorative Neurology and in a total of twenty societies and research groups; He is also involved in the development and expansion of an international coma research facility in Salzburg .

His international successes brought him invitations and a. moved to Asia and Africa, where he worked on so-called tropical neurology, which aims to heal neurological damage in tropical diseases . Gerstenbrand and the Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky grew up in the same area when they were young. Due to their later lifelong friendship, Gerstenbrand had time and again the opportunity to get to know heads of state and government and to make proposals to the Austrian federal government for the development of the health system and new hospital buildings in third world countries , some of which were implemented. To this day, these hospitals established abroad have been looked after and expanded by Austrian know-how.

Gerstenbrand wrote 786 publications and is the editor of twelve books. Some of them are considered international standard works in neurology .

Gerstenbrand died on June 30, 2017 in Vienna at the age of 93.

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  1. ↑ Persistent vegetative state: more intensive patient care. In: ORF ON Science. Retrieved December 1, 2017 .
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  3. ↑ http://www.youthforlife.net/detail.php?id=298
  4. ↑ Obituary em.o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr.hcmult. Franz barley brandy. Innsbruck Medical University, July 4, 2017, accessed July 6, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Barley brandy, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian neurologist and professor emeritus
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Hof , North Moravia , Czechoslovakia
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 2017
Place of death Vienna