Abstract
Theodore Hermann Meynert (1833–92) was an influential Viennese psychiatrist practising at the turn of the twentieth century. He developed innovative anatomical techniques and trained many leading neuroscientists of the time. He developed complex conceptions on how subcortical and cortical structures worked to produce psychiatric symptoms. These ideas were criticized by some of his contemporaries and yet foreshadowed the modern conceptions of understanding the pathogenesis of psychiatric disease. His name has been eponymously linked to at least seven areas of the brain, including the nucleus basalis of Meynert, which has become famous because of its vulnerability to neurodegenerative pathology such as is found in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
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