Jean-Martin Charcot

Jean-Martin Charcot (29 November 1825 - 16 August 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
  • Charcot-Marie-Tooth_disease (CMT)
    • Announced the disease simultaneously with Pierre Marie (France) and Howard Henry Tooth (England)
    • Sometimes called peroneal muscular atrophy
  • Charcot-Leyden crystals
• Famous students
  • Taught at Salpêtrière.
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Joseph Babinski
  • Alfred Binet