Emil Redlich was an Austrian neurologist

Neurologist

A neurologist is a physician who specializes in neurology, and is trained to investigate, or diagnose and treat neurological disorders.Neurology is the medical specialty related to the human nervous system. The nervous system encompasses the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. A specialist...

 born in Brno

Brno

Brno by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia. Brno is the administrative centre of the South Moravian Region where it forms a separate district Brno-City District...

.

In 1889 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna

University of Vienna

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, and later performed anatomical

Anatomy

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 research of the brain at Heinrich Obersteiner

Heinrich Obersteiner

Heinrich Obersteiner was an Austrian neurologist who was born in Vienna. In 1870 earned his doctorate from the University of Vienna, where he worked in the laboratory of Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke ....

’s institute. In 1895 he was a medical assistant at Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

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's neurological institute, and in 1898 became head of a private mental institution in Inzersdorf

Inzersdorf (Vienna)

Inzersdorf was before 1938 an independent municipality, and is now a part of the 23rd Viennese district Liesing....

, outside of Vienna

Vienna

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. In 1914 he was appointed director of the Nervenheilanstalt Maria-Theresia-Schlössel in Vienna.

His name is associated with Redlich-Obersteiner's Zone

Redlich-Obersteiner's Zone

The Redlich-Obersteiner's zone is a boundary between the central nervous system , the peripheral nervous system . The Redlich-Obersteiner's zone is located at the point of entry of either between cranial nerves and the brain or spinal nerves and the spinal cord...

; the anatomical location where the central nervous system

Central nervous system

The central nervous system is the part of the nervous system that integrates the information that it receives from, and coordinates the activity of, all parts of the bodies of bilaterian animals—that is, all multicellular animals except sponges and radially symmetric animals such as jellyfish...

 meets the peripheral nervous system

Peripheral nervous system

The peripheral nervous system consists of the nerves and ganglia outside of the brain and spinal cord. The main function of the PNS is to connect the central nervous system to the limbs and organs. Unlike the CNS, the PNS is not protected by the bone of spine and skull, or by the blood–brain...

. He also described a type of abortive disseminated encephalomyelitis

Encephalomyelitis

Encephalomyelitis is a general term for inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, describing a number of disorders:* Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis or postinfectious encephalomyelitis, a demyelinating disease of the brain and spinal cord, possibly triggered by vaccination or viral...

 with lesions scattered throughout the spinal cord

Spinal cord

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 and brain. This disorder was to become known as "Redlich-Flatau syndrome", named along with Edward Flatau

Edward Flatau

Edward Flatau was a Polish neurologist. His work greatly influenced the developing field of neurology. He established neurobiologic and neuropathological sciences in Poland...

 (1868-1932), who stated that a virus

Virus

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could be the cause of the disease.