Advanced Search Results For "Walusinski, O."

Publication Type: eBook

Abstract: Yawning is a stereotyped phylogenetically ancient phenomenon that occurs in almost all vertebrates. As an emotional behavior and an expressive movement, yawning has many consequences; nevertheless, it has so far been poorly addressed in medical researc...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): Revue Neurologique; June 2023, Vol. 179 Issue: 6 p523-532, 10p

Abstract: Paul Blocq (1860–1896) and his teacher Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893) introduced the expression “astasia-abasia” into medical terminology in 1888 to designate a pathology they believed to be caused by hysteria. This condition makes it impossible to re...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): Revue Neurologique; March 2023, Vol. 179 Issue: 3 p137-140, 4p

Abstract: Since its discovery by the American inventor and industrialist Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931) in 1877, the phonograph attracted much interest in the field of medicine. This article describes the earliest pioneering examples of the use of the phonograph...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): Revue Neurologique; March 2023, Vol. 179 Issue: 3 p128-136, 9p

Abstract: In 1787, Alexis Pujol (1739–1804) wrote the first monograph exclusively on trigeminal neuralgia which he called “tic douloureux”, or painful tic. Although it was not a seminal description, his monograph was a valuable clinical summary that helped his c...

Publication Type: Academic Journal

Source(s): Heliyon, Vol 3, Iss 11, Pp e00437- (2017)

Abstract: Yawning behaviour has been associated with a variety of physiological and social events and a number of corresponding functions have been attributed to it. Non-directed (self-directed behaviour) and directed yawning (display behaviour) might nonetheles...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): Revue Neurologique; November 2022, Vol. 178 Issue: 9 p872-877, 6p

Abstract: Arnold Netter (1855–1936) was a paediatrician who clinically applied the progress that his Pasteurian contemporaries had made possible through their bacteriological discoveries. From a neurological point of view, he brought looking for Kernig's sign in...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): Revue Neurologique; November 2022, Vol. 178 Issue: 9 p878-885, 8p

Abstract: A pandemic of what came to be known as encephalitis lethargica spread starting in the winter of 1916-1917 and continued into the 1930s. Neurological after-effects, namely permanent parkinsonian syndromes and various abnormal movements, permanently disa...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): Revue Neurologique; October 2022, Vol. 178 Issue: 8 p766-770, 5p

Abstract: Gayet-Wernicke syndrome is an eponym mainly used in France. In this article, we revisit Charles Gayet's (1833–1904) speciality and his patient example that gave rise to the eponym. Charles Gayet attributed the anatomical lesions to inflammation. Howeve...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): Revue Neurologique; October 2022, Vol. 178 Issue: 8 p756-765, 10p

Abstract: Jean-Martin Charcot coined the term Duchenne-Aran atrophy. The inversion of names compared to standard practice shows the respect Charcot had for Guillaume Duchenne de Boulogne, who had encouraged him to study nervous disease. Using innovative localise...

Publication Type: Periodical

Source(s): Revue Neurologique; September 2022, Vol. 178 Issue: 7 p635-643, 9p

Abstract: Physicians remember the name of the surgeon Percivall Pott (1713–1788) because of the eponym “Pott's disease”, described as “paralysis in the lower limbs, which is often accompanied by curvature of the spine”. Pott's writings on surgical subjects are f...