# Felix Plaut

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{{Short description|German psychiatrist}}
'''Felix Plaut''' (1877–1940) was a German [psychiatrist](/source/psychiatrist) who was director of the Department of [Serology](/source/Serology) at the ''Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie'' in [Munich](/source/Munich). In 1935 he was removed from this position by the Nazis, and subsequently emigrated to [London](/source/London).<ref>{{cite book |title=The University Department of Psychiatry in Munich: From Kraepelin and His Predecessors to Molecular Psychiatry |last=Hippius |first=Hanns |authorlink= |author2=Hans-Jürgen Möller |author3=Norbert Müller |author4=Gabriele Neundörfer-Kohl |year=2007 |publisher=Springer |location= |isbn=978-3-540-74016-2 |pages=94 }}</ref>

Plaut is remembered for his research on the [syphilitic](/source/syphilis) origin of [general paresis](/source/General_paresis_of_the_insane), as well as his work with [August von Wassermann](/source/August_von_Wassermann) (1866-1925) in the development of a [serological](/source/serology) test for syphilis. Plaut performed extensive research of syphilis and its correlation to psychiatric disorders, and conducted early studies in [neuroimmunology](/source/neuroimmunology) involving the [brain](/source/brain)'s immune reaction to syphilitic infiltration.

== Selected writings ==
* "The Wasserman Sero-Diagnosis of Syphilis in its Application to Psychiatry", translated by [Smith Ely Jelliffe](/source/Smith_Ely_Jelliffe) and Louis Casamajor (1911); originally published in German in 1909 as ''Die Wassermannsche Serodiagnostik der Syphilis in ihrer Anwendung auf die Psychiatrie''.
* ''Leitfaden zur Untersuchung der Zerebospinalflüssigkeit''. [Jena](/source/Jena): Verlag von Gustav Fischer, (1913). 1st Edition 
* ''4 Fälle aus der Deutschen Forschungsanstalt für Psychiatrie''; with [Walther Spielmeyer](/source/Walther_Spielmeyer): In [Franz Nissl](/source/Franz_Nissl)’s Beiträge, volume 2, 1; Berlin, (1923).

== References ==
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* {{cite book
|title=The Wassermann Sero-diagnosis of Syphilis in Its Application to Psychiatry
|author1=Felix Plaut |author2=Smith Ely Jelliffe |author3=Louis Cassamajor |year=1911
|publisher=The Journal of nervous and mental disease publishing company
|isbn=
|url=https://archive.org/details/wassermannserod00plaugoog
|quote=felix plaut.
}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080227235313/http://people.clarkson.edu/~sheilafw/rudin/ The German Research Institute for Psychiatry/Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Psychiatry]

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