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Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (Polish: Józef Julian Franciszek Feliks Babiński; 17 November 1857 – 29 October 1932) was a French-Polish professor of neurology. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage.
In early 1896, Babinski outlined the finding that became known as the Babinski sign. With Joseph Babinski, Philippon and Poiriet aim to provide the first significant and authoritative biography of one of the most important pioneers in neurology.
- Talha Burki
- 2009
Joseph Babinski (1857-1932) was born on November 17, 1857. He worked in a clinical arena dominated by Charcot and a focus on hysteria. His primary aim was in trying to find the reliable clinical signs to distinguish organic from non-organic disease of the nervous system.
- Man Mohan Mehndiratta, Kalyan B Bhattacharyya, Vikram Bohra, Swapan Gupta, Ankur Wadhwa
- 10.4103/0972-2327.128522
- 2014
- Jan-Mar 2014
Aug 1, 2009 · His name is “frequently on the lips of every student of medicine in every corner of the globe,” and now we finally have the definitive biography of this major figure in French neurology during the latter half of the 19th century.
Joseph Babinski (1857–1932), a French neurologist of Polish descent, first described the Babinski sign, the best known neurological eponym and one of the most important signs in clinical neurology, in 1896.
- Emmanuel Drouin, Guillaume Drouin, Yann Péréon
- 2017
Almost every physician knows Joseph Babinski (1857-1932) for the “sign,” ie, the toe phenomenon he described in 1896 and 1898.
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Apr 4, 2023 · Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (1857-1932) was a French neurologist. 1902, Babinski coined the term dysdiodochokinesis to describe the inability to perform rapid execution of movements requiring alternate contractions of agonist and antagonist muscles.
