Category Neurology
Vertigo Big 3

Vertigo the Big 3

Dr Peter Johns, Canadian emergency physician and dizziness demystifier, has made a video on how to diagnose ‘The Big 3 of Vertigo” in the ED

Joseph Babinski

Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (1857-1932) was a French neurologist. Multiple eponyms including Babinski reflex, Babinski sign, Babinski syndrome

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Louis Landouzy

Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy (1845-1917) was a French neurologist.. Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome and Landouzy syndrome

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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease (spinal form of muscular atrophy) is the commonest disease within a group of conditions called Hereditary Motor and Sensory Neuropathies (HMSN).

Ludwig Edinger

Ludwig Edinger (1855-1918) was a German neurologist and anatomist. Edinger demonstrated the nucleus in the foetus in 1885; and Westphal in the adult in 1887.

Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne

Biography Medical Eponyms Landouzy-Déjérine syndrome First to describe and publish 9 cases of Landouzy-Déjérine syndrome (facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy) in the third edition of De l’électrisation localisée in 1872: 219-220 Key Medical Attributions Duchenne smile Controversies Major Publications References Biography Eponymous…

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Jules Falret

Jules Philippe Falret (1824 - 1902) was a French psychiatrist. 1877, along with Ernest-Charles Lasègue (1816-1883) first described the concept of Folie à deux, initially termed Lasègue-Falret syndrome.

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John Madison Taylor

John Madison Taylor (1855-1931) was an American pediatric neurologist. He designed the first tendon reflex hammer in 1888