Karl Heilbronner
Karl Heilbronner was a German psychiatrist. He specialized in research of apraxia, depression and obsessive behavior disorders.
He studied medicine at the University of Munich as a pupil of Hubert von Grashey, obtaining his doctorate in 1894. He later worked as an assistant to Carl Wernicke at Breslau, followed by service as a senior physician under Eduard Hitzig at the University of Halle. In 1903 he succeeded Theodor Ziehen as a full professor of psychiatry at the University of Utrecht.- "Heilbronner's sign": - In cases of organic paralysis, a flattening and broadening of the thigh when the patient lies supine on a hard surface.
Selected works
- Über Krankheitsdauer und Todesursachen bei der progressiven Paralyse, 1894 – On duration of illness and causes of death in progressive paralysis.
- Aphasie und Geisteskrankheit, 1896 – Aphasia and insanity.
- Über Asymbolie, 1897 – On asymbolia.
- Über Gewöhnung auf normalen und pathologischen Gebiete, 1912 – On habituation in normal and pathological areas.
