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Although best known for his pioneering work in psychiatry and psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud began his medical career in neurology.

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1) was born on May 6, 1856, in Freiberg—a small town in Moravia (today called Příbor, Czech Republic). Freud came from a nonaffluent Jewish family of wool merchants. In 1859–1860, the Freud family first moved from Freiberg to Leipzig, and then to Vienna, where Freud spent most of his life [1, 2].

In 1873, Freud graduated with distinction from gymnasium and in the same year he began studying medicine at the University of Vienna.

Three years later, he started working in the physiological laboratory under the direction of Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke.

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Freud was entrusted to research the histology of the nervous system, with which, to the delight of his mentor, he coped very well. As a result, Freud continued his research and worked intermittently in the laboratory from 1876 to 1882 [1, 2].

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