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Jean-Martin Charcot

Affiliations: 
Hôpital Salpêtrière, Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France 
Area:
Neurology, anatomical pathology
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(1825-1893)
http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/view/search/what/Portraits/Charcot,%20Jean%20Martin%201825-1893/
Nicknamed "the Napoleon of the neuroses". First to name and describe multiple sclerosis. Charcot believed that hysteria was a neurological disorder caused by hereditary problems in the nervous system. He used hypnosis to induce a state of hysteria in patients and studied the results.

Mean distance: 15.09 (cluster 2)
 
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Cross-listing: Anatomy Tree - Hypnotree - Neuropathology Tree