Son of Otto Creutzfeldt doctor. Born in Hamburg (Germany) on June 2, 1885. He was the co-discoverer neuropathologist of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in 1920. studied at the Faculties of Medicine of the Universities of Jena and Rostock, receiving his degree in 1909. Was part of his residency at St. George Hospital in Hamburg. I also work at the Neurological Institute in Frankfurt, Neuropsychiatric Clinic of Breslau, Kiel and Berlin, and Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie in Munich.
described in 1920, with his friend Alfonso Maria Jakob, the disease that now bears the name of both: the Creutzfeldt - Jakob . It is a neurological disease with forms of genetic and infectious also produced by a protein called prion (PrP). This protein folds abnormally, seeming to encourage other proteins that alter their shape, which affects their ability to function.
The disease causes decreased brain function and movement, having a very fast progress, because after six months there is total insanity and death occurs shortly after, as there is no known cure.
In 1925 he received the degree of extraordinarius professor of psychiatry and neurology, to be appointed in 1938 professor and director of psychiatric and neurological unit at the University of Kiel, where he served as rector after the Second World War. When the forces British occupation was fired for a conflict, Creutzfeldt moved to Munich (1950) to pursue his scientific and died there in 1964. Author
work: Penalba Valles, Maria Teresa.
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