Carl Friedrich Otto Westphal (* 23. March 1833 in Berlin; "† 27 January 1890 in Kreuzlingen with Konstanz) was a German psychiatrist and neurologist.

1858 he became an assistant among other things with William Griesinger. 1861 it habilitierte and became private lecturer in psychiatry at the citizens of Berlin university. 1869 he became a director of the hospital for neurology of the It held this position until 1889. Several important neurologists belonged to Arnold Pick (1851-1924) and Hermann Oppenheim to his pupils, among other things (1858-1919). Carl who-nods (1848-1905) was its assistant. Its son was a neurologist and psychiatrist Alexander Karl Otto Westphal (1863-1941).

Westphal described for the first time the Pseudosklerose (Westphal syndrome, a late form of the disease Wilson), which and the autonomous central area of the Nervus calls Agoraphobie oculomotorius, today Edinger Westphal core.

Works

• The Agoraphobie, a neuropathische feature in: Archives for psychiatry and nervous diseases, Berlin, 1871-72; 3:138 - 161.
• Artificial production of epilepsy with guinea pigs
• Affection of the nervous system after smallpox and typhoid fever
• Over some movement features brought out by mechanical effect on chords and muscles (kneeling, foot phenomenon) in: Archives for psychiatry and nervous diseases, Berlin, 1875,5:803 - 834.
• Peculiar accumulations connected with falling asleep in: Archives for psychiatry and nervous diseases, Berlin, 1877; 7:631 - 635.
• Psychiatric papers. Berlin, A. Hirschwald, 1892. (Bd. 1 of the collected papers hrsg. Alexander Karl Otto Westphal)

Literature

• Seidel M.: Carl Westphal - a progressive university teacher of the neurology and psychiatry in 19. Century. Psychiatr. Neurol. Med. Psychol. 1986; 38:733 - 40.
• Kohl, F.: The classical descriptions of the fear of place of Carl Westphal and Emil Cordes and their meaning for concept history and current discussion of the fear illnesses. Psychiatr. Prax. 2001; 28:3 - 9.

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