page_title: Edward Flatau
section_title: Scientific accomplishments
hierarchical_section_title: Edward Flatau / Scientific accomplishments
caption_attribution_description: Plate from Edward Flatau brain atlas 1899 (2nd edition, 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: Flatau dealt with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the brain, treatment of muscle diseases, child neurology, peripheral nerve surgery, anatomy of the nervous system, histopathology of the nerve tissue, experimental oncology, neurophysiology, and nervous system pathophysiology. 
  His scientific career is described in number of works. The most comprehensive are biographies written in Polish by his pupil and subsequent professor of neurology in the postwar Poland, Eugeniusz Herman. 
  Other Polish publications include 
  Besides these contributions there are several written in English and German
  A good source of information is the Jubilee Book of Edward Flatau (written in German, French and Polish), published during his lifetime, which contains contributions from his scientific collaborators as well as a bibliography and biography written by his student Maurycy Bornsztajn. 
  In 1937 Warszawskie Czasopismo Lekarskie published special edition devoted to Flatau contributed mostly by his pupils.
caption: Template from the English edition of the brain atlas
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