Rezső Bálint
Rezső Bálint (born October 22, 1874 in Budapest ; † May 23, 1929 ) was an Austro-Hungarian neurologist and psychiatrist . The Bálint syndrome was named after him.
Life
Rezsö Bálint worked in Budapest for life ( Austria-Hungary until 1918 ). He studied medicine there , received his doctorate in 1897 and worked as a student of Friedrich von Korányi (1828–1913). After he completed his habilitation in 1910, he received an extraordinary and then a full professorship in 1914 .
Services
Rezsö Bálint wrote fundamental works on the pathology of the autonomic nervous system and the pathogenesis of gastric ulcer caused by acidification of the stomach .
He is the first to describe a neurological syndrome named after him , the Bálint syndrome (spatial attention disorder , inability to make targeted movements with the eyes, inability to make targeted and eye-controlled hand movements).
Web links
- Short biography at whonamedit.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bálint R and Weiss St (1927): Ulcer problem and acid base balance. Berlin
- ↑ Bálint R (1930): Tissue Proliferation and Acid-Base Equilibrium. Pathology and clinic in individual presentations. Vol.2
- ^ Bálint R (1909): paralysis of the soul of 'looking', optical ataxia, spatial disturbance of attention. Monattsschriften für Psychiatric Neurologie 25 : 51–81
- ^ Husain M and Stein J. (1988): Rezso Bálint and his most celebrated case. Archives of Neurology , 45 (1): 89-93
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| SURNAME | Bálint, Rezső |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-Hungarian neurologist and psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1874 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Budapest |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 23, 1929 |