PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

C Jagella

Publications and source records attributed to C Jagella.

7 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed2001

[Correspondence between Winkler and Von Monakow. I. Personal affairs and visions].

Cornelis Winkler (1855-1941) and Constantin von Monakow (1853-1930) are considered to be pioneers in neurology in the Netherlands and Switzerland respectively. Winkler became the first professor of Psychiatry and Neurology in Utrecht (1893) and Von Monakow the first professor of Neurology in Zürich (1894). They first met in Amsterdam (1907). Many other meetings followed and they maintained a lively correspondence. Winkler's letters to Von Monakow (1908-1927) are archived at the Institute of Medical History in Zürich and are the principal source for two articles. This first article considers personal affairs and views: the friendly relationship, the experiences during World War I, the personal struggle with respect to the emancipation of neurology at the start of the 19th century, Von Monakow's manuscript of Vita Mea and finally Von Monakow's succession.

Correspondence as Topic↗
PubMed2001

[Correspondence between Winkler and Von Monakow. 2. Developments in psychiatry and neurology (1900-1930)].

In this second article Winkler's and Von Monakow's views on the evolution of psychiatry and neurology (1900-1930) are described. They discussed a number of scientific subjects in their correspondence, such as the localisation of functions in the central nervous system and in particular Von Monakow's concept of 'diaschisis'. This concept explained the phenomenon that symptoms during the acute phase of central nervous system disorders are more extensive and of a different nature than those during the chronic phase. The controversy between the neuron theory and the reticular theory was also discussed in the correspondence. One of the reasons for the correspondence and meetings was the plan to compile an atlas of the brain although due to the outbreak of World War I this did not come to fruition. Finally there was an extensive correspondence concerning the psychoanalytic movement within the psychiatry, of which Winkler and Von Monakow, as biologically orientated neuropsychiatrists, were highly critical. German language neuropsychiatry has had a considerable influence in the Netherlands and this is in part due to the relationship Winkler had with German neuropsychiatrists and Von Monakow in particular.

Correspondence as Topic↗
PubMed2000

[Height-induced vertigo and its medical interpretation: Goethe and the Strassburger Münster].

An analysis combining medicine and literature challenges the methodology of both disciplines. This essay on the vertigo Goethe suffered on the tower of the Strasbourg Minster attempts to trace the vicissitudes of interpreting an emblem, like vertigo, burdened by cultural meaning and implications. Thus, Goethe's own report of this event 40 years after the fact, in his "Dichtung und Wahrheit", has to be related to another, hidden chronology of vertigo and fear in his account which, at first glance, conveys quite different implications. The first part of this paper refers to a medical interpretation of Goethe's dread of high places and his way of coping with it which, today, could be defined as a typical example of a behaviourist approach. In the second part, Goethe's vertigo is linked to psychoanalytic, literary, and historical reflections on the meanings of symptoms we connect today with medical terms like anxiety, phobia, and vertigo. Goethe's vertigo is shown as a complex problem--not only for himself but also for its interpreters: on the one hand, it tells its own story-within-a-story; on the other, it depends on the tools it was written with. Traditional approaches of medical history try to find symptoms and traces of diseases known to us today in literary texts, an approach which is as dubious as taking today's tools of medical analysis, such as psychoanalytic terms and concepts, to explain specific phenomena in literature without first carefully analysing these methods themselves, and only then subjecting the text to an analysis based on them. Nevertheless, this essay does not contest the justification of interpreting literary texts in the light of today's medical knowledge, but postulates that it should be clear which type of medical knowledge is applied. It is quite possible to read Goethe's account only as an old tale of acrophobia, but how will this help us? It seems more interesting to look at the link between the feeling of dizziness he experienced on top of the tower and the "cultural feeling" of the Sturm and Drang period, and then to trace the perception of this feeling at that time within its cultural context and in the light of prevalent medical theory.

Famous Persons↗
PubMed1999

[Not Available].

Explore the source record for details and available documents.

Congresses as Topic↗
PubMed1998

[Eugen Bleuler's warning of "autistic undisciplined thinking in medicine" as a contribution to the scientific critique of medical research. A Zurich concept on "ratio et experientia" in medical thinking].

Bleuler, well known for introducing psychoanalysis into university psychiatry, is less known for his more important achievement: his introduction of results of brain research into scientific thinking, especially epistemology. His short tract on "autistic and undisciplined thinking" summarises these themes, culminating in his critical rejection of a science which denies the "natural unity" of the brain, and insists on the separation of emotions from thinking despite the evidence to the contrary gained from studying associations and their physical substrate.

Emotions↗
PubMed1995

[Neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology].

The 17th centuryś origins of neuropsychiatry are found in the works of Thomas Willis, who introduced the terms 'psychologia' and 'neurologia' and developed a complete neuropsychiatric concept. His views were revived by 18th-century animists and vitalists who were able to accept body-mind interactions, unlike the followers of Leibniz (e.g. Haller) who stuck to his psychophysical parallelism without possible interaction. This was also the creed of John Hughlings Jackson, whose influence on the development of neuropsychiatry and neuropsychology in the first decades of the 20th century was second to none. Neuropsychiatry, a Germanic specialty, was able to germinate in 1845 in Griesinger's 'Pathology and therapy of mental diseases', after Gall, Mesmer, Johannes Müller and many others had reformed and expanded the concept of mind-body interaction. In the second half of the 19th century, in the German-speaking countries progress in both neurology and psychiatry was usually achieved by neuro-psychiatrists. Neuropsychology (Lashley, 1913) was a product of both Jacksonian and Germanic neuropsychiatric ideas. During the 20th century neurology was separated from psychiatry, but new trends and their names such as 'psychobiology' and 'biological psychiatry', although quite old, are suggestive of a new kind of neuropsychiatry.

Europe↗