Gabriel Anton (28 July 1858 – 3 January 1933) was an Austrianneurologist andpsychiatrist. He is primarily remembered for his studies of psychiatric conditions arising from damage to thecerebral cortex and thebasal ganglia.
He was a native ofSaaz,Bohemia, and in 1882 received his medical doctorate atPrague. In 1887 he traveled toVienna in order to work withTheodor Meynert (1833–1892), who was to become an important influence to Anton's medical career. In 1891 he moved toInnsbruck, where he served as an associate professor of psychiatry and director of the university clinic. Later (1894), he relocated to theUniversity of Graz as a full professor of psychiatry, and in 1905 succeededKarl Wernicke (1848–1905) at theUniversity of Halle.
Anton is remembered for his pioneer contributions in the field ofneurosurgery. In collaboration withsurgeonsFriedrich Gustav von Bramann (1854–1913) andViktor Schmieden (1874–1945), he proposed new procedures for treatment ofhydrocephalus. These included the "Balkenstich method" and the "suboccipital puncture".[1]
Along with neurologistJoseph Babinski (1857–1932), theAnton–Babinski syndrome is named. Anton provided a detailed description and explanation of visualanosognosia and asomatoagnosia associated with the disorder.[2] Asomatoagnosia is a rare phenomenon where a patient is in denial of a body part.
WithPaul Ferdinand Schilder (1886–1940), he performed investigations of movements in patients withchorea andathetosis. In his research of chorea, he identified scars in thelenticular nuclei.
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