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	Alois Alzheimer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1896, at a meeting of the Société de Biologie in Paris, Babinski reported his discovery that in certain CNS injuries, when the sole of the foot is scratched, the big toe goes up (extends) instead of down - a reflex now called the "Babinski's sign".
		He drew the correct conclusion that the sign is explained by lesions of the pyramidal tract and also noticed that it is to be found in healthy infants.
		In 1903 he described the fanning of the toes that often occurs simultaneously with the extension of the big toe in lesions of the pyramidal tract.
	daphne.palomar.edu /ccarpenter/Portraits/babinski.htm (100 words)

	Joseph Jules Francois Felix Babinski
		Joseph Jules Francois Felix Babinski was born on November 1, 1857 in Paris, France where he also died October 29, 1932 at the age of 75.
		Of Babinski’s many accomplishments, writings and discoveries, he was most known for “recogniz[ing] the significance and the importance of the inversion of the plantar cutaneous reflex which translates an attack of the pyramidal system controlling fine motricity” (Lambert, n.d.).
		Babinski was a extraordinary scientist and clinician that gave much to the field of neuroanatomy and helped pave the way for further anatomists, not only in France, but world-wide.
	www.angelfire.com /jazz/neurodude (552 words)

	Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (www.whonamedit.com)
		Joseph Babinski was the son of a polish engineer and his wife who in 1848 flew Warsaw for Paris because of a Russian reign of terror with the purpose of stalling Polish attempts at achieving independence.
		Babinski's failure to climb the academic ladder was to become of fundamental importance to French neurology.
		Babinski’s obituary in The Lancet ended with the following words: "None of Charcot's pupils is surer to be remembered for his achievements in the field of neurology." Babinski is buried on the Cimetière des Champeaux at Montmorency, about 13 km north of Paris, France.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/370.html (2419 words)

	The Babinski sign--a reappraisal. Kumar SP, Ramasubramanian D Neurol India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Babinski sign is not a new reflex, rather it is released as a result of breakdown of the harmonious integration of the flexion and extension components of the normal defence reflex mechanism, due to pyramidal tract dysfunction.
		Joseph Babinski was born in Paris and died at the age of 75 in 1932 [Figure.
		The Babinski sign might be released by dysfunction of pyramidal tract fibres that project on interneuronal zone, at least on those interneurons that subserve the flexion reflex synergy, of which the Babinski sign is a part.
	www.neurologyindia.com /article.asp?issn=0028-3886;year=2000;volume=48;issue=4;spage=314;epage=8;aulast=Kumar (2094 words)

	Legacy Report
		Joseph Krzyzostanski was born in Russia-Poland, died in Russia-Poland, and was buried in Russia-Poland.
		Joseph B Krzyzostanski was born on Jul 7, 1880 in Russia-Poland, died on Aug 9, 1944, at age 64, and was buried on Aug 14, 1944 in Holy Cross Cemetery, Akron OH Section 5 Grave #1259-A. 4 M iii.
		Joseph A Kempe was born on Feb 13, 1898 in Russia-Poland, died on Mar 23, 1972, at age 74, and was buried on Mar 27, 1972 in Greenlawn Cemetery, Akron, OH, Section F, Plot 610, Grave 6.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/9208/descendant.htm (8461 words)

	Selected Twentieth Century Works: B
		Babinski was a renowned French neurologist who succeeded Charcot at Salpetriere in 1893 and devoted his life to clinical neurology.
		Offprint of one of Babinski's papers on the electrical investigations of the auditory apparatus.
		The effects of polarization upon the activity of vertebrate nerve, by G.H. Bishop and Joseph Erlanger.
	www.thebakken.org /library/books/20b.htm (5394 words)

	Plantar reflex biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In medicine (neurology), the Babinski reflex or Babinski sign is a reflex that can identify disease of the spinal cord and brain.
		The lateral side of the sole of the foot is rubbed with a sharp or hard implement (usually the tip of a tendon hammer), running from the heel along a curve to the metatarsal pads.
		This happens because the corticospinal pathways (that run from the brain down the spinal cord) are not fully myelinated at this age, so the reflex is not inhibited by the cerebral cortex.
	www.biography.ms /Babinski_reflex.html (301 words)

	DR. JOSEPH FRANCOIS FELIX BABINSKI (1857-1932) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Babinski, of French descent, had a thorough training in general medicine before entering the study of neurology.
		His bibliography is lengthy beginning with a treatise on typhoid fever (1882) and ending with a study on hysteria (1930).
		Babinski anticipated the neurosurgical era approaching France and of 2 of his favorite students- de Martel and Vincent he stated "I showed them the way to found French neurosurgery."
	www.uic.edu /depts/mcne/founders/page0003.html (132 words)

	Welcome to egullet.org
		Babinski was a polymath, a prophet, a writer -- the "Brillat-Savarin of the twentieth century," dammit!
		Luckily for the neurological novice, Joseph's most famous discovery can be explained to the barefoot anywhere: no hospital is required, no electrodes, no framed parchment on your office wall.
		Should you be interested in the history of Joseph Babinski's Extensor Plantar Response, and his eponymous sign, I refer you to Medscape.
	www.egullet.com /tdg.cgi?pg=ARTICLE-maggiealibab (2431 words)

	MedicalPost.com: MEDICAL MONIKERS: The 'sign' of an observant clinician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Joseph Babinski was a big man in every way.
		And with his pupil and associate, Carpentier, Dr. Babinski described the abolition of the pupillary responses to light in cerebrospinal syphilis.
		Dr. Babinski never held a university post, but he was richly honoured by his peers during his lifetime.
	www.medicalpost.com /mpcontent/article.jsp?content=/content/EXTRACT/RAWART/3516/28.html (405 words)

	The Babinski sign -- Lance 73 (4): 360 -- Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
		Joseph Felix Francois Babinski was born in Paris of Polish parents
		A longitudinal study of the Babinski and plantar grasp reflexes in infancy.
		The Babinski plantar response, its forms and its physiological and pathological significance.
	jnnp.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/73/4/360 (2212 words)

	Jean-Martin Charcot (www.whonamedit.com)
		Joseph Babinski, his student, however, decided that Charcot had invented rather than discovered hystero-epilepsy.
		In 1885 one of his students was Sigmund Freud, and it was Charcot's employment of hypnosis in an attempt to discover an organic basis for hysteria that stimulated Freud's interest in the psychological origins of neurosis.
		Babinsky, however, was outmaneuvered through academic intrigue, and the chair thus was given to Fulgence Raymond (1844-1910), a somewhat distinguished neurologist, also of eponymic fame, but a man of much lesser format than Babinski.
	www.whonamedit.com /doctor.cfm/19.html (3725 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Professor Charcot was well-known for showing, during his lessons at the SalpÃªtriÃ¨re hospital, "hysterical" woman patients – here, his favorite patient, "Blanche" (Marie) Wittman, supported by Joseph BabiÅ„ski.
		He used hypnosis to induce a state of hysteria in patients and study the results, and was single-handedly responsible for changing the French medical community's opinion about the validity of hypnosis (it was previously rejected as Mesmerism).
		Charcot is just as famous for his students: Sigmund Freud, Joseph Babinski, Pierre Janet, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, and Alfred Binet.
	mindwallet.com /wiki/Jean-Martin_Charcot (297 words)

	Multiple Personality Disorder / Dissociative Identity Disorder
		A skeptical student, Joseph Babinski, decided that Charcot had invented rather than discovered hystero-epilepsy.
		Babinski and Charcot were reminded of the rare but impressive epidemic of fainting, convulsions, and wild screaming in convents and boarding schools that ended when the group of afflicted persons was broken up and scattered.
		The rules discovered by Babinski and Charcot, now embedded in psychiatric textbooks and confirmed by decades of research in social psychology, are being overlooked in the midst of a nationwide epidemic of alleged MPD that is wreaking havoc on both patients and therapists.
	www.psycom.net /mchugh.html (1365 words)

	Thieme-connect - Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The normal response to noxious stimulation of the foot is plantar flexion of the toes, causing them to curl downward toward the undersurface of the foot.
		In 1896, Joseph Babinski described an extensor toe response that he claimed was a consistent finding among patients with pyramidal tract lesions of the cortex, subcortex, brain stem, or spinal cord.
		Charles Gilbert Chaddock admired the work of Babinski and described a modification of the Babinski technique, demonstrating that stimulation of the lateral surface of the foot could induce the same type of toe extension in patients with pyramidal tract lesions.
	www.thieme-connect.com /ejournals/abstract/sin/doi/10.1055/s-2002-36761 (256 words)

	Chapter Four (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While he felt that there were individuals predisposed to high suggestibility, he focused on the collusive nature of symptom elicitation: the patient producing what the physician, and by implication the medical system and medical culture, "expected" him to produce.
		As a result of Babinski’s reformulation, the number of diagnosed cases of hysteria in Europe declined in the first decade of the 20th century.
		In sum, Babinski’s formulation of suggestibility, Beard’s concept of neurasthenia, and the rapidly developing schools of psychotherapeutic thought informed the paradigms for diagnosis and explication of combat-related stress responses in this century.
	www.gulflink.osd.mil /library/randrep/marlowe_paper/mr1018_11_ch4.html (2201 words)

	"The other" Babinski's sign: paradoxical raising of the eyebrow in hemifacial spasm -- DEVOIZE 70 (4): 516 -- Journal ...
		Joseph Babinski is famous for his description, in 1896, of the abnormal plantar reflex as an indicator of dysfunction in the
		From these observations, Babinski concluded that hemifacial spasm is neither the result of a psychological problem nor of
		This "other" Babinski's sign can, occasionally, be useful in distinguishing hemifacial
	jnnp.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/extract/70/4/516 (177 words)

	wiki/List of eponymous diseases Definition / wiki/List of eponymous diseases Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Addison diseaseAddison's disease (also known as chronic adrenal insufficiency, or hypocortisolism) is a rare endocrine disorder.
		Capgras syndromeThe Capgras delusion or Capgras' syndrome is a rare disorder in which a person holds a delusional belief that an acquaintance, usually a close family member or spouse, has been replaced by an identical looking imposter.
		It is named after Joseph Capgras (1873-1950) a French psychiatrist who first described the disorder in a paper by Capgras and Reboul-Lachaux1,2 in 1923.
	www.elresearch.com /wiki/List_of_eponymous_diseases (4507 words)

	"B" Famous People
		Babinski, Joseph (François Felix) (1857-1932) Neurologist, born in Paris, France.
		Berrigan, Daniel J(oseph) (1921-) Catholic priest, social activist, and poet, born in Virginia...
		Blanc, (Jean Joseph Charles) Louis (1811-82) French statesman and historian, born in Madrid, Spain.
	www.jonathanselby.com /Bfam (17711 words)

	The reading requirements for Module 6: Reflexogenic systems of Human Kind by Professor Frederick Robert Carrick are ...
		It was Joseph Francois Felix Babinski who became known worldwide for the sign that bears his name.
		Clovis Vincent, "father' of French neurosurgery and pupil of Joseph, stated: "Joseph Babinski lived for science, and Henri lived for his brother; without Henri Babinski, Joseph would not have accomplished that much".
		Several people can claim the name Babinski, but in neurology and neurosurgery there is only one, Joseph.
	www.dendrites.com /mod6.htm (14273 words)

	Possession or Suggestion? by Don Matzat
		These symptoms resembled epilepsy, Babinski believed, because of the decision to house epileptic and hysterical patients together (both having "episodic" conditions).
		With this understanding, Charcot and Babinski devised treatment consisting of isolation and counter suggestion.
		The patients were transferred to the general wards of the hospital and kept apart from one another.
	www.issuesetc.org /resource/journals/v2n2.htm (3717 words)

	Untitled Document
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		Rigg is the principal of St. Joseph Elementary School in Memphis, Tenn. Julie A. Romasco recently received tenure as a seventh-grade English teacher at Norwell (Mass.
	www.holycross.edu /departments/publicaffairs/hcm/fall04/class_notes/1990.htm (2643 words)

	1900-1909 by Kenneth L. Tyler, MD
		English neurology was in the midst of a generational change as William Gowers, Hughlings Jackson, Charles E. Beevor, and Henry Bastian were entering the end of their active careers, and a new generation of leaders that included Henry Head, Gordon Holmes, and S. Kinnier Wilson was emerging.
		French Neurology was dominated by Charcot's successors including Vulpian's student, Dejerine, Pierre Marie, and Joseph F. Babinski.
		Bottom Row: Joseph FF Babinski (1857-1932), France; William Erb (1940-1921), Germany.
	www.aneuroa.org /html/c20html/1900_1909.htm (583 words)

	Legacy Report
		Anthony was born in 1863 in Konin, Russia-Poland, died on May 1, 1922 in Barberton, OH, at age 59, and was buried on May 4, 1922 in St. Augustine's Cemetery, Waterloo Rd, Akron Ohio Row 9.
		3-Jennie Anna Babinski was born on May 30, 1914, died on Dec 24, 1998, at age 84, and was buried on Dec 29, 1998 in Holy Cross Cemetery, Akron OH, Section 22 Grave # 829-B. Research Notes: Birth and death dates from Ohio Death index.
		3-Florence Stella Babinski was born on Jul 3, 1915 and died on Jul 25, 1997, at age 82.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/9208/descendant2.htm (8101 words)

	jules-dejerine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This young Frenchman was born and raised in the provincial atmosphere of Geneva, Switzerland, where his father was a carriage proprietor.
		In school in earlier years Joseph Jules was better known as a boxer and swimmer, and for his fishing on Lake Léman, than for his academic accomplishments, but all this changed when he became attracted to biology and comparative anatoiny.
		In 1871, when twenty-two years old, he decided that he should pursue his clinical studies in Paris.
	perso.easynet.fr /baillement/lettres/dejerine-english.html (798 words)

	Brain Tumor Dictionary
		One of the leading neurologists of his time, Babinski published more than 200 papers, making many important contributions to clinical neurology.
		He introduced the concept of asynergia and described adiadokokinesis, the inability to perform rapid alternating movements.
		Babinski reflex: A reflex movement in which when the sole of the foot is tickled the great toe turns upward instead of downward.
	virtualtrials.com /dictionary.cfm (11417 words)

	Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies October 29 in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies October 29 in History
		Joseph F F Babinski, Polish/French neurologist (B-Reflex), dies
		Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
	www.brainyhistory.com /events/1932/october_29_1932_91466.html (47 words)

	hysteo-epilepsy: Dr. Jean Martin Charcot (1825-1893)
		At one point in his illustrious career, Charcot believed that he had discovered a new disease, which he called "hystero-epilepsy." The symptoms included "convulsions, contortions, fainting, and transient impairment of consciousness."* He showed his students several examples of this new disease during his rounds at Salpêtrière Hospital.
		Babinski convinced Charcot that hystero-epilepsy was not a disorder and that doctors can induce symptoms in their patients.
		They separated the "hystero-epileptic" patients from each other and from staff members who had treated them.
	skepdic.com /hystero.html (495 words)

	Spokesmanreview.com Classifieds
		Preceded in death by her husband, Joseph Paul Babinski, Sr.
		Survived by children: Joseph P. Babinski, Jr., Kimberley A. Harris and Michael D. Babinski; and grandchildren: Logan Bab-inski, Keelan Babinski, Bryson Babinski, Tyler Harris and Brandon Babinski.
		At her request, no services will be held.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /class/notices?ID=225048 (134 words)

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