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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.
With Joseph Babinski, Philippon and Poiriet aim to provide the first significant and authoritative biography of one of the most important pioneers in neurology. Both authors are former heads of department—neurosurgery and histology, respectively—at the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, where Babinski himself served as head of internal medicine from 1895 to 1922.
- 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. He was considered as masterly diagnostician, relying considerably less on ...
- Man Mohan Mehndiratta, Kalyan B Bhattacharyya, Vikram Bohra, Swapan Gupta, Ankur Wadhwa
- 10.4103/0972-2327.128522
- 2014
- Jan-Mar 2014
Aug 1, 2009 · To Babinski's credit, it was he who championed the importance of objective neurological signs for distinguishing hysteria from organic disease. We learn also that, unlike Charcot, Babinski was deeply committed to therapeutics, experimenting with drugs, electrotherapy, radiotherapy, and lumbar puncture, and was an early advocate for neurosurgery.
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 1896.1 Babinski was the favourite pupil of Jean-Martin Charcot, who markedly influenced Babinski's research. He appears in the famous painting of Charcot's lesson at Salpêtrière hospital (“Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière” by Pierre Aristide André Brouillet [1857–1914 ...
- Emmanuel Drouin, Guillaume Drouin, Yann Péréon
- 2017
Joseph Babinski: A Biography. Almost every physician knows Joseph Babinski (1857-1932) for the “sign,” ie, the toe phenomenon he described in 1896 and 1898. The degree to which Babinski significantly influenced clinical neurology was demonstrated by his friends and colleagues (John Fulton: “the living incarnation of Charcot ...
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Joseph Babinski: a biography. In early 1896, Babinski outlined the fi nding that became known as the Babinski sign. With Joseph Babinski, Philippon and Poiriet aim to provide the fi rst signifi cant and authoritative biography of one of the most important pioneers in neurology. Both authors are former heads of department—neurosurgery and ...
