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Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean Martin Charcot 1825-1893 was a French neurologist.
- Contributions
- Experiments in hypnosis
- Description of hysteria
- Recognised disseminated sclerosis as a distinct disease
- Described ankle clonus
- Work with
- Recognized the relationship between specific spinal cord and brain lesions and disease
- Entities named for Charcot
- Charcot joint
- Disintegration of joint surfaces though loss of proprioception
- Charcot foot
- Charcot's disease
- Cerebrospinal stenosis
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth_disease (CMT)
- Announced the disease simultaneously with Pierre Marie (France) and Howard Henry Tooth (England)
- Sometimes called peroneal muscular atrophy
- Charcot joint
- Famous students
- Taught at Salpêtrière.
- Sigmund Freud
- Joseph Babinski
- Alfred Binet
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