Gaetano Perusini
Italian psychiatrist (1879-1915)
Gaetano Perusini (24 February 1879 – 8 December 1915) was an Italian physician. He was the pupil and colleague of Alois Alzheimer and contributed to the definition of Alzheimer's disease.
Education and early family life
Gaetano Perusini was born in Udine on February 24, 1879, to a successful family of physicians. Perusini's father, Andrea, was the Chief Physician of the Civil Hospital of Udine and his mother, Paolina Cumano, was the daughter of two prominent surgeons from Trieste. Perusini lost his father when he was only seven years old. This lack of a paternal force in the family enabled his growth and upbringing to be influenced mainly by his mother, a strong maternal personality, who guided his studies and encouraged his interest in medicine.
Perusini began studying medicine at the University of Pisa and then went on to finish his training at the University of Rome. In Rome, he often visited the local psychiatric clinic, the Lungara Mental hospital.
After graduating, Perusini decided to specialize in psychiatry, spending time at the psychiatric clinic of Augusto Giannelli and the neuropathology laboratory of Giovanni Mingazzini. Thanks to his time at professor Giovanni Mingazzini's laboratory, Perusini gained a deep passion for mental illnesses and an interest in pathological anatomy, which led to his enthusiasm to discover the organic basis of mental illnesses.
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