Jacobus Schroeder van der Kolk

Jacobus Ludovicus Conradus Schroeder van der Kolk (Leeuwarden, 14 April 1797 – Utrecht, 1 May 1862) was a Dutch anatomist and physiologist and an influential researcher into the causes of epilepsy and mental illness.

[2] In Utrecht, Schroeder van der Kolk's pupils included Franciscus Donders,[2] Hermann Snellen and Barend Joseph Stokvis.

Autopsy studies on the brains of people who had suffered of epilepsy in life showed changes in the medulla oblongata (part of the brainstem), and Schroeder van der Kolk stated that seizures must therefore originate in this area.

Apart from Lallemand he was also influenced by the French psychiatrists Philippe Pinel and Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol.

[2] Schroeder van der Kolk became a correspondent of the Royal Institute in 1831 and was admitted as member in 1846.