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  Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne de Boulogne (www.whonamedit.com)
Duchenne’s mother in law spread rumours that the death of his wife was caused by the fact that only he was present at the delivery, and after this he was separated from his only son by his wife’s family.
Duchenne was a lonely figure at the wards of the Paris hospitals, mocked by the interns and rebuffed by the senior medical staff, whom he called «monarchs» of the ward».
Duchenne studied the mechanism of facial expression during emotion; his atlas of photographs is a most important contribution to medical photography.
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Duchenne, who is considered the father of electrotherapy, began in the 1840s to use the induction coil to extensively study muscles and paralysis.
Duchenne discovered that a movement (raising a finger, moving the arm in a certain direction, creating a smile) was usually not caused by the contraction of just one muscle but rather required coordination between a number of muscles.
Duchenne was a pioneer in the use of photography as a medium for observation, representation and knowledge in the medical domain.
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 IEEEVM: Guillaume Duchenne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Duchenne is also considered the father of electrotherapy, or the use of electricity for medical purposes, as well as the father of neurology.
Duchenne was born in 1806 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, a French coastal town.
Duchenne’s studies concentrated on the muscles of the hand, arm, foot, and face, and used what he called “localized faradization” (connecting the induction coil to the skin near the muscle) to determine what kind of electric shock resulted in a particular movement.
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 Guillaume Duchenne -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne was a (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French (A medical specialist in the nervous system and the disorders affecting it) neurologist born in (additional info and facts about Boulogne) Boulogne on September 17, 1806.
He was educated at (additional info and facts about Douai) Douai and studied medicine in (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris before returning to his hometown to put his profession to practice in 1831.
Duchenne died on September 15, 1875, in Paris.
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 MDA / Quest 5-5 / The Legacy of Guillaume Duchenne
Duchenne was also notable for placing an emphasis upon the importance of studying the disease in living subjects.
Duchenne fashioned a "harpoon," a small hollowed-out instrument used to penetrate the skin of living subjects and extract samples of muscle tissue for examination.
Duchenne continued his use of "faradism," the application of electricity to the skin for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
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 eMedicine - Muscular Dystrophy : Article by Twee Do, MD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Guillaume Duchenne was a French neurologist who, was already famous for his application of faradism (the use of electric currents to stimulate muscles and nerves) in the treatment of neurologic disorders.
Duchenne MD is the most common condition, and being sex-linked, it has an inheritance pattern of 1 case per 3500 live male births.
Duchenne MD is a terminal disease in which death usually occurs by the third decade of life (mostly from cardiopulmonary compromise).
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 Guillaume Duchenne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne was a French neurologist born in Boulogne on September 17, 1806.
He was educated at Douai and studied medicine in Paris before returning to his hometown to put his profession to practice in 1831.
Such "genuine" smiles are called Duchenne smiles in his honor.
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 Duchenne de Boulogne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Duchenne de Boulogne, C.-B. The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression Paris: Jules Renard.
Duchenne du Boulogne was a pioneering neurophysiologist as well as an innovative photographer.
Subsequent researchers from Darwin to Ekman all acknowledge their debt to Duchenne, and this fascinating little book, with its truly remarkable photographs, makes excellent reading even today.
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 Rare Pediatric Disease Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an inherited disorder of muscle that usually presents in early childhood with delay in reaching motor milestones.
It was first described by the neurologist Guillaume Duchenne in the 1860s and is now thought to be caused by a defective gene that produces an abnormal muscle protein.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is also an X-linked recessive disorder which means that it mainly affects boys.
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 Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The U.S. actor and singer Robert Guillaume was born Robert Williams on Nov. 30, 1927, in St. Louis, Mo. He changed his last name to reflect his French-Indian background.
Guillaume Farel was born in Gap, France, in 1489.
Legally known as the Count of France, a title bought by his originally bourgeois family, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel d'Orsay was a French dandy and wit as well as a skillful amateur painter and sculptor.
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One of the key researchers during this period was French physician Guillaume Duchenne (1806-1875).
Duchenne also employed the relatively new technology of photography to document his results, using a variety of subjects including actors, children and Parisian indigents.
Remembered as the father of electrotherapy and neuropathology, Duchenne’s name is memorialized in the disease Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, one of the debilitating diseases that he hoped electrical stimulation might alleviate.
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 Duchenne - Localised Faradisation - The IEE
The French scientist Guillaume Duchenne du Boulogne took medical electricity into the realm of physiology and anatomy in the late 17th century.
Duchenne's stugy using his localised excitation techiniques enabled him to deduce much about the causes of many conditons such as paralysis and muscle deformity.                         
Duchenne's "De L'electrisation Localise" described techniques of application of localised electropuncture therapy - either direct (to the muscle) or indirect (to the nerve) excitation. 
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 AllRefer.com - Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne (Medicine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne[gEyOm´ bANzhAmaN´ AmAN´ dUshen´] Pronunciation Key, 1806–75, French physician.
He is noted for researches on diseases of the muscular and nervous systems and for his pioneer work on the use of electricity in the diagnosis and treatment of disease.
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 GUILLAUME BENJAMIN AMAND DUCHENNE - LoveToKnow Article on GUILLAUME BENJAMIN AMAND DUCHENNE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
GUILLAUME BENJAMIN AMAND DUCHENNE - LoveToKnow Article on GUILLAUME BENJAMIN AMAND DUCHENNE
French physician, was born on the 17th of September 1806 at Boulogne, the son of a sea-captain.
For a detailed life see Archives gnrales de medicine (December 1875), and for a complete list of his works the 3rd edition of LElectrisation localisCe (1872).
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 Facial expression - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Photographs from the 1862 book Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine by Guillaume Duchenne.
Through electric stimulation, Duchenne determined which muscles were responsible for different facial expressions.
Charles Darwin would later republish some of these photographs in his own work on the subject, which compared facial expressions in humans to those in animals.
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 A Genuine Smile Goes a "Long Way"
In Duchenne smile, the facial muscles involved in are difficult to control voluntarily.
In the remaining group, the Duchenne smilers and Pan American smilers were fifty-fifty.
The women with Duchenne smile were more likely to be married and stay married.
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 Guillaume Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne; with Adrien Tournachon / "Plate 31: Excitation electrique un peu plus forte ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Guillaume Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne; with Adrien Tournachon / "Plate 31: Excitation electrique un peu plus forte des grand zygomatiques: Rire faux," from "Ch.
Guillaume Benjamin Duchenne de Boulogne; with Adrien Tournachon
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 Contributions of Guillaume...
Contributions of Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne of Boulogne to medicine
In this article we describe some scientific and personal facts which determine the destiny of Guillaume Duchenne and his historic trascendence and explain why he is considered as one of the biggest teachers of the medicine of the past century.
He made also innovations in his books because he introduced photographs and that's why all of them are considered today classics in neurology.
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 DUCHENNE, GUILLAUME BENJAMIN AMAND (1806-1875) - Online Information article about DUCHENNE, GUILLAUME BENJAMIN AMAND ...
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 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand @ HighBeam Research
DUCHENNE, GUILLAUME BENJAMIN AMAND [Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand], 1806-75, French physician.
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 Duchenne, Guillaume Benjamin Amand - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
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 Definition of Duchenne - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Etymology: Guillaume Armand Duchenne died 1875 French neurologist
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A common and severe form of muscular dystrophy which affects children under 10 years old, usually boys.
Etymology: 19c: named after Guillaume Duchenne (1806‐75), French physician.
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