Gabriel Anton

He is primarily remembered for his studies of psychiatric conditions arising from damage to the cerebral cortex and the basal ganglia.

In 1887 he traveled to Vienna in order to work with Theodor Meynert (1833–1892), who was to become an important influence to Anton's medical career.

In 1891 he moved to Innsbruck, where he served as an associate professor of psychiatry and director of the university clinic.

In collaboration with surgeons Friedrich Gustav von Bramann (1854–1913) and Viktor Schmieden (1874–1945), he proposed new procedures for treatment of hydrocephalus.

Anton provided a detailed description and explanation of visual anosognosia and asomatoagnosia associated with the disorder.