Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora

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Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora (born June 25, 1886 in Madrid , † December 27, 1971 ibid) was a Spanish-Mexican neurologist , neuropathologist and psychiatrist .

Life

Lafora studied psychiatry in Berlin, Paris and Munich. He worked as an associate professor of neuropathology and head of the Institute for Physiology of the Brain at the Institut Cajal in Madrid. In 1923 he gave popular science lectures on psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires . In 1928 he fled the Franco regime to Mexico and did not return to Spain until the end of his life.

Lafora disease is named after Lafora , a hereditary metabolic disease in which polyglycosan bodies become trapped in various tissues, including the nervous system, liver and muscle tissue. These inclusions arise due to impaired glycogen metabolism and are also known as Lafora bodies .

Publications

  • Gonzalo R. Lafora, Bernard Glueck: Contribution to the histopathology of myoclonic epilepsy. In: Journal for the whole of neurology and psychiatry. 6, 1911, pp. 1-14, doi : 10.1007 / BF02863929 .

literature

  • Jesús Gonzales Cajal: Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora: breves notas biográficas RAEN Vol. VIII. N. o 27. 1988 PDF version (Spanish)
  • Lafora, Gonzalo Rodriguez , in: Élisabeth Roudinesco ; Michel Plon: Dictionary of Psychoanalysis: Names, Countries, Works, Terms . Translation. Vienna: Springer, 2004, ISBN 3-211-83748-5 , p. 598
personal data
SURNAME Lafora, Gonzalo Rodríguez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish neurologist, neuropathologist and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1971
Place of death Madrid