n :  a demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that is inherited as an X-linked recessive trait affecting males in childhood and that is characterized by progressive blindness, deafness, tonic spasms, and mental deterioration - called also adrenoleukodystrophy , ncephalitis periaxialis diffusa , childer's encephalitis 
 
Schilder, Paul Ferdinand (1886-1940), Austrian psychiatrist. In 1912 Schilder described encephalitis periaxialis diffusa, which is now commonly known as Schilder's disease.
 
 
 
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