Constantin von Monakow [SEP] place of birth
Constantin von Monakow
Constantin von Monakow (November 4, 1853 – October 19, 1930) was a Russian-Swiss neuropathologist who was a native of Bobretsovo in the Vologda Governorate.
He studied at the University of Zurich while working as an assistant at the Burghölzli Institute under the directorship of Eduard Hitzig (1839-1907). After graduation, he was an assistant at St. Pirminsberg, where he performed scientific investigations of cerebral anatomy. In 1885 he returned to Zurich, where he later became director of the brain anatomy
stroke, for example. Some function may be restored with gradual readjustment of the intact but suppressed areas through intervention and the brain's natural neuroplasticity.
The term "diaschisis" was coined by Constantin von Monakow in 1914. Currently the term "diaschisis" is used to describe a depression of regional neuronal metabolism and cerebral blood flow caused by dysfunction in an anatomically separate but functionally related neuronal region.
Von Monakow's concept of neurophysical changes in distant brain tissue to the focal lesion led to a widespread clinical interest. Doctors