Felix Plaut

Felix Plaut

Felix Plaut (1877-1940) was a German psychiatrist who was director of the Department of Serology at the "Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie" in Munich. In 1935 he was removed from this position by the Nazis, and subsequently emigrated to London. [cite book |title=The University Department of Psychiatry in Munich: From Kraepelin and His Predecessors to Molecular Psychiatry |last=Hippius |first=Hanns |authorlink= |coauthors=Hans-Jürgen Möller, Norbert Müller, Gabriele Neundörfer-Kohl |year=2007 |publisher=Springer |location= |isbn=3540740163 |pages=94 ]

Plaut is remembered for his research concerning the syphilitic origin of general paresis, and his work with August von Wasserman (1866-1925) in the development of a serological test for syphilis. Plaut also performed extensive research of syphilis and its correlation to psychiatric disorders, and did early studies in neuroimmunology regarding the brain's immune reaction to syphilitic infiltration.

Selected writings

* "The Wasserman Sero-Diagnosis of Syphilis in its Application to Psychiatry", translated by S. E. Jelliffe and L. Casamajor (1911); originally published in German in 1909.
* "Leitfaden zur Untersuchung der Zerebospinalflüssigkeit". Jena: Verlag von Gustav Fischer, (1913). 1st Edition
* "4 Fälle aus der Deutschen Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie"; with Walther Spielmeyer: In Franz Nissl’s Beiträge, volume 2, 1; Berlin, (1923).

References

* cite book
title=The Wassermann Sero-diagnosis of Syphilis in Its Application to Psychiatry
author=Felix Plaut, Smith Ely Jelliffe, Louis Cassamajor
year=1911
publisher=The Journal of nervous and mental disease publishing company
isbn=
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=HMBqQ6uRwfMC&dq=%22felix+plaut%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=wvM-tLdURV&sig=eNIgLVZbm5_w-xwEXsaLHrlT_2I#PPA5,M1
* [http://people.clarkson.edu/~sheilafw/rudin/ The German Research Institute for Psychiatry/Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry]


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