Open AccessAlbert Pitres: Charcot’s Brilliant Student
Author(s) -
Emmanuel Drouin,
Yann Péreón,
M. Pasquini,
Patrick Hautecœur
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
european neurology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.573
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1421-9913
pISSN - 0014-3022
DOI - 10.1159/000521526
Subject(s) - biography , neurology , clinical neurology , pathological anatomy , medicine , psychoanalysis , psychology , neuroscience , history , psychiatry , art history , pathology
Albert Pitres (1848–1928) was an internist, neuropsychiatrist, professor of anatomy, pathology, and histology. He never really had a biography in English. However, the development of neurology and neurosciences in Bordeaux owes a lot to him, as to the psychiatrist Emmanuel Régis (1855–1918). The fact that his career was so closely linked with Charcot (1825–1893) should have secured him a more prominent place in neurology and the history of aphasiology. Pitres went on to co-author clinical and experimental research papers with Charcot that are considered some of the most notable ones among Charcot’s publications. Both carried out studies about pathological correlations between cortical lesions and hemiplegia, published series of articles and two major books about neurophysiology of motor control. To convey the atmosphere and the importance of the neurological clinic of Pitres in the heyday, we illustrate this article with unpublished photos of him.