Marcel Proust's fictional diseases and doctorsJulien Bogousslavsky
Center for Brain and Nervous System Diseases, GSMN Neurocenter, Clinique Valmont, Glion Montreux, Switzerland
Front Neurol Neurosci 31:245-54. 2013
..When called to examine a dying patient, one of the real doctors of the novel, Professor Dieulafoy, says and does nothing except ask for his fees. This defiance and criticism of physicians were indeed those of Proust in real life...
- The Nadja case
Julien Bogousslavsky
Center for Brain and Nervous System Diseases, GSMN Neurocenter, Clinique Valmont, Glion Montreux, Switzerland
Front Neurol Neurosci 31:44-51. 2013
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- Sigmund Freud's evolution from neurology to psychiatry: evidence from his La Salpêtrière library
Julien Bogousslavsky
Center for Brain and Nervous System Disorders Neurocenter, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, and Department of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, Clinique Valmont, Glion Montreux, Switzerland
Neurology 77:1391-4. 2011
..To analyze the parallel between the scientific evolution of Sigmund Freud and his French library during and after his stay with Jean-Martin Charcot at La Salpêtrière in 1885-1886...
- Alfred Vulpian and Jean-Martin Charcot in each other's shadow? From Castor and Pollux at La Salpêtrière to neurology forever
Julien Bogousslavsky
Center for Brain and Nervous System Disorders, and Neurology and Neurorehabilitation Services, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Clinique Valmont, Glion Montreux, Switzerland
Eur Neurol 65:215-22. 2011
..However, Vulpian and Charcot remain inseparable in the memory of a lifelong friendship which gave birth to neurology...
- Hysteria after Charcot: back to the future
Julien Bogousslavsky
Center for Brain and Nervous System Disorders, and Neurorehabilitation Services, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Clinique Valmont, Montreux, Switzerland
Front Neurol Neurosci 29:137-61. 2011
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- Paul Sollier: the first clinical neuropsychologist
Julien Bogousslavsky
Center for Brain and Nervous System Disorders, and Neurorehabilitation Services, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Clinique Valmont, Montreux, Switzerland
Front Neurol Neurosci 29:105-14. 2011
..Sollier was also the first to correlate clinical findings with neurophysiological concepts, which makes him a precursor of our current approach to neurology and psychiatry...
- Birth of modern psychiatry and the death of alienism: the legacy of Jean-Martin Charcot
Julien Bogousslavsky
Center for Brain and Nervous System Disorders, and Neurorehabilitation Services, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Clinique Valmont, Montreux, Switzerland
Front Neurol Neurosci 29:1-8. 2011
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- Gilles de la Tourette's criminal women: the many faces of fin de siècle hypnotism
Julien Bogousslavsky
Department of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, Clinique Valmont, Glion Montreux, Switzerland
Clin Neurol Neurosurg 112:549-51. 2010
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- From alienism to the birth of modern psychiatry: a neurological story?
Julien Bogousslavsky
Department of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, Clinique Valmont, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Glion, Switzerland
Eur Neurol 62:257-63. 2009
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- Crime, hysteria and belle époque hypnotism: the path traced by Jean-Martin Charcot and Georges Gilles de la Tourette
Julien Bogousslavsky
Department of Neurology and Neurorehabilitation, Clinique Valmont, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Glion Montreux, Switzerland
Eur Neurol 62:193-9. 2009
..Ironically, Gilles de la Tourette may have been partly responsible, since he had been one of the strongest proponents of placing mentally-ill criminals in asylums instead of prisons...
- Did Jean-Martin Charcot contribute to stroke?
Julien Bogousslavsky
Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Clinique Valmont, Glion Montreux, Switzerland
Eur Neurol 64:27-32. 2010
..Charcot's work on stroke remains poorly recognized, but it demonstrates his unique skills in stimulating scientific work in younger colleagues, many of whom subsequently became major figures of neurology and psychiatry...
- Stendhal's aphasic spells: the first report of transient ischemic attacks followed by stroke
Julien Bogousslavsky
Center for Brain and Nervous System Disorders, and Neurorehabilitation Services, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Clinique Valmont, Montreux, Switzerland
Front Neurol Neurosci 27:130-42. 2010
..Stendhal's TIAs a few months before his fatal stroke constitute the first historical report of the warning nature of TIAs, which would be emphasized only over 100 years later...
- The last myth of Giorgio De Chirico: neurological art
Julien Bogousslavsky
Center for Brain and Nervous System Disorders, and Neurorehabilitation Services, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Clinique Valmont, Montreux, Switzerland
Front Neurol Neurosci 27:29-45. 2010
..In that way, de Chirico's work should not be considered as that of a genius who fell into decadence, but may appear as a continuous, organized process to which organic brain dysfunction never contributed...
Memory after Charcot: Paul Sollier's visionary workJulien Bogousslavsky
Department of Neurology, Genolier Swiss Medical Network, Valmont-Genolier, 1823 Glion-sur-Montreux, Switzerland
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 78:1373-4. 2007
