Charcot - Definition and Overview

Professor Charcot was well-known for showing, during his lessons at the Salpêtrière hospital, "hysterical" woman patients – here, his favorite patient, "Blanche" (Marie) Wittman, supported by Joseph Babinsky.

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
Famous students
- Taught at Salpêtrière.
- Sigmund Freud
- Joseph Babinski
- Alfred Binet

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