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- Bernard Sachs (January 2, 1858 – February 8, 1944) was an American neurologist.
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Bernard Sachs (January 2, 1858 – February 8, 1944) was an American neurologist. Early life and education.
May 31, 2017 · Bernard Sachs studied nervous system disorders in children in the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In the late 1880s, Sachs described the fatal genetic neurological disorder called amaurotic family idiocy, later renamed Tay-Sachs disease.
Bernard Sachs, called “The Dean of Neurology” at the turn of the century, was the first to describe the clinical picture of "amaurotic family idiocy" (Tay-Sachs disease). He was twice elected to the presidency of the American Neurological Association, at ages 36 and 74.
Jan 25, 2020 · Bernard (christened “Barney”) Sachs (Fig. 1) attained international renown for recognizing “amaurotic familial idiocy” or Tay–Sachs disease . He was born on 2 January 1858 in Baltimore, MD, to Joseph and Sophia Sachs, an immigrant couple of Bavarian-Jewish origin.
- Vasiliki A Natsiopoulou, Lazaros C Triarhou
- 2021
Bernard Sachs (January 2, 1858 – February 8, 1944) was an American neurologist.
Bernard Sachs (1858-1944) In 1881 the British ophthalmologist Warren Tay linked the presence of a cherry-red spot located in the retina to symptoms of physical and mental decline. Six years later, the American neurologist Bernard Sachs published the clinical and pathological findings.
Sachs, a pioneer in the field of child neurology, is best known for his description of the Tay-Sachs disease in children – a progressive impairment of mental functions, muscles, and vision ending in blindness.
