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Meta A. Neumann
US neuropathologist, 1896-1996.
Associated eponyms:
Neumann's syndrome (M. A. Neumann)
Inherited dementia.
Biography:
Meta A. Neumann won renown for her work in degenerative diseases of the brain. She came to work at Saint Elizabeths hospital, Washington, DC in as a histology technician in 1924. Saint Elizabeths was the first large-scale, federally-run psychiatric hospital in the United States. Later, she received her MS degree from George Washington University, Washington, DC. From 1934 to 1942, Neumann served as assistant scientist in the laboratory. In 1942, her expertise in neuropathology led to an appointment as the hospital's neuropathologist. She was the last neuropathologist to work in the Blackburn Laboratory at Saint Elizabeths hospital.
Neumann served as the vice president of the American Association of Neuropathologists and was nationally recognized as an authority on the degenerative diseases of the brain. She was the first to describe the findings in primary subcortical gliosis (Pick's disease).
Meta A. Neumann authored fifty publications.
We thank André Trombeta for information submitted.
- Surya Kanhouwa and Kenneth Gorelick:
A century of pathology at Saint Elizabeths hospital, Washington, DC.
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, January 1, 1997, 121 (1).
Bibliography:
- Meta A. Neumann, Robert Kohn and Solomon Katzenelbogen:
Experimental "shock therapies" in cats with insulin and metrazol. Histopathologic Study. The American Journal of Psychiatry, March 1942, 98: 668-672.
- Meta A. Neumann:
Primary Carcinoma of the Liver with Metastases to Bone. Report of a Case.
The American Journal of Pathology, Philadelphia, September 1944, 20 (5): 895–909.
- Meta A. Neumann
Combined degeneration of globus pallidus and dentate nucleus and their projections.
Neurology, Philadelphia, 1959, 9: 430.
- Meta A. Neumann and Robert Cohn:
Progressive subcortical gliosis, a rare form of presenile dementia.
Brain, 1967, 90: 405-418.
- Meta A. Neumann, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (1923-2008):
Neuropathologic findings in exotic neurologic disorders among natives of the highlands of New Guinea.
Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology, Baltimore, July 1964, 23: 486-507.
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