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Criticism of pithiatism: eulogy of Babinski.
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June 2015
Faculté de Médecine Pitié-Salpêtrière, L'Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
Babinski, 'Chef de Clinique' of Charcot from 1885 to 1887, fully supported the ideas of his teacher on hysteria and thought that a dynamic brain cortical lesion is the cause of the disease. After Charcot's death in 1893, Babinski gradually revised his position. In a first step, he described many neurological signs in order to clearly distinguish hysterical manifestations from the organic disorders of the central nervous system.
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