Joseph Jules Flix Babinski (* 17 November 1857 in Paris, France; "† 29 October 1932 ebd.), Polish also Franciszek Feliks Babinski, was an important Polish-French neurologist. Its father, an engineer, and its nut/mother fled 1848 from Warsaw to Paris.

Life

It studied first medicine and specialized afterwards in the neurology. During its study Jean Martin Charcot on the young Babinski became attentive. Soon Babinski became its favourite student. Babinski acquired 1884 its doctor title at the University of Paris with a writing over the multiple Sklerose, a topic it Flix Vulpian (1826-1887) suggested.

Crucially for the further life Babinskis was a further pupil Charcots, Charles Joseph Bouchard. This received quite soon a Professur and amplifier-rode themselves with its Mentor. By Bouchards plots Babinski remained malfunctioned an academic career. Thus it went 1890 to the large de la into Paris. That was a stroke of luck for the French neurology. Freely of training tasks he dedicated the Symptomatologie of neurological illnesses and wrote themselves altogether 288 publications.

Babinski indication

1896 presented Babinski on a conference of the de Biologie, the background of a pathological reflex, which Alfreds Vulpian and Ernst Julius Remak had before already described. Babinski recognized, which was injuries of the pyramid course the cause. Until 1903 it published several comprehensive work to this topic. The phenomenon is called today Babinski reflex or Babinski indication.

Influence on the neurosurgery

End 19. Century the first Laminektomien and operations were accomplished for the distance of tumors of the Babinski had transferred, was however dissatisfied with the results some patients to the sizes at that time on this area. He assumed that the operations at the wrong eddy segment were implemented, i.e. too deeply. He did with Thierry de Martel together and let its next patients by him operate. Due to the accurate forecast of the localization by Babinski Thierry de Martel in a the position was to remove the tumor successfully which is seen as Wiedergeburt of the French neurosurgery.

Further work to the neurology

1900, one year before Alfred merry, described Babinski the Dystrophia adiposogenitalis with a tumor of the hypophysis, today also as merry syndrome or Babinski merry syndrome designation. it described 1902 with Jean Nageotte (1866-1948) the clinical symptoms in case of an ischemically caused loss of the postero lateral part of the Medulla oblongata (Oblongata container syndrome), today also as Babinski Nageotte syndrome (or boiling mountain syndrome) designation. 1905 it described the neurophysiological background the Tabes dorsalis. It concerned itself with the pathology of the Kleinhirns and introduced the terms ataxia and Dysdiadochokinese as guiding symptoms of cerebraler lesions.

The moreover one busy Babinski with the pathogenesis of the hysteria and gained for the first time reliable differential-diagnostic criteria, in order to distinguish these from organic diseases. He disproved the thesis of its teacher Charcot, believed a new illness, "„Hysteroepilepsie "“to have discovered.

In its last Lebensjahren Babinski under the park in on illness suffered.

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