page_title: Edward Flatau
section_title: Neurology and early human genetics
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Flatau / Scientific accomplishments / Neurology and early human genetics
caption_attribution_description: First page of Edward Flatau "Die Migrane" published in Berlin in 1912 by Springer
context_page_description: Edward Flatau was a Polish neurologist and psychiatrist. He was a co-founder of the modern Polish neurology, an authority on the physiology and pathology of meningitis, co-founder of medical journals Neurologia Polska and Warszawskie Czasopismo Lekarskie, and member of the Polish Academy of Learning. His name in medicine is linked to Redlich-Flatau syndrome, Flatau-Sterling torsion dystonia, Flatau-Schilder disease, and Flatau's law. His publications greatly influenced the developing field of neurology. He published a human brain atlas, wrote a fundamental book on migraine, established the localization principle of long fibers in the spinal cord, and with Sterling published an early paper on progressive torsion spasm in children and suggested that the disease has a genetic component.
context_section_description: In 1911, Flatau and Wladyslaw Sterling published an article on progressive torsion spasm in children.
  The authors pointed out that the disease was associated with genetic factors. In the same year, Theodor Ziehen and Hermann Oppenheim published a paper claiming that dystonia is related to a disease of the muscles. However, Flatau and Sterling noted that the intellectual capacity of these patients was higher than average. In 1976, Eldridge suggested that the publication of Flatau and Sterling was one of the first to describe the genetic factors of neurological diseases.
  In 1927, Flatau, independently of Emil Redlich in Vienna, described the first cases of encephalomyelitis epidemica disseminata (Flatau-Redlich disease). Flatau was convinced that this illness is caused by a virus which was later confirmed by Mergulis. In 1925, Flatau described in detail Schilder disease
  and suggested new name  "encephaloleukopathia scleroticans progressive".
  Between 1921 and 1923, he described the meningeal symptoms characteristic during tuberculosis-related inflammation of meningitis: namely,  the pupil extension when bending head and  erection of the penis during repeated bending of the torso forward.
caption: German edition of 1912 Die Migrane, one of the first modern books on migranes in 20th century
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