Theophilus Alajouanine

Theophilus Alajouanine , born the June 12th 1890 with Verneix in the To combine and dead the May 2nd 1980 with Paris, is a Neurologue and writer French.

Biographical elements

Theophilus Alajouanine makes his secondary studies with the college of the Maristes of Moulins and his medical studies with Paris. He is Intern in 1913 and its boarding school, stopped by the First World War, will last 6 years. It is under the influence of Masters like Achille Souques and especially Charles Foix that it is directed towards the Neurologie. It receives also a solid formation in Psychiatrie, in particular with Philippe Chaslin. He will be then successively senior registrar of the nervous diseases (in 1923), doctor of the hospitals (in 1926) and qualified schoolteacher of Neurologie in the service of the professor Georges Guillain, station which he preserves until in 1936. In 1947, it succeeds Gorges Guillain with the Pulpit of Clinique of the Diseases of the Nervous system of the Salpêtrière (whose first holder had been Charcot). It will preserve this station until in 1960. Elected official member of the Academy of medicine in 1951, it was also Grand Officer of the Légion of Honor and Doctor Honoris causa several universities.

Professor Alajouanine devoted all his youth to the study of the problems of Neuropathologie and individualized syndromes which bear its name. He published several hundreds of articles in the neurological Revue. He contributed to the installation of the Neuropsychologie while being interested in the bonds between the aphasias and the language.

Theophilus Alajouanine had a double activity of neurologist and writer. Its book on Valéry Larbaud, which it looked after during twenty-two years, its friendship with Paul Valéry and of many Poète S testify some. It made the semiological analysis of the neurological disease whose Maurice Ravel at the end suffered from its life. Its work the Aphasia and the pathological language was crowned by the French Academy in 1970.

Bibliographical elements

Of the late cérébelleuse atrophy with cortical prevalence. Neurological review, Paris, 1922,38:849 - 885, 1082-1111. (in collaboration with Pierre Marie and Charles Foix)
the reflex médiopubien. Reports of the meetings of the Company of biology, Paris, 1923,89:874. (in collaboration with Georges Guillain)
the subacute necrotic myélite (Myélite angiohypertrophic power station with progressive evolution). Neurological review, Paris, 1926,2:1 - 42. (in collaboration with Charles Foix).
the phonetic syndrome of disintegration in the aphasia. Paris, Masson, 1939,138 p. (in collaboration with Andre Ombredane and Marguerite Durand)
aphasia and the pathological language. Paris, Ballière, 1968.

Sources

Obituary of Theophilus Alajouanine, Le Monde , May 8th, 1980.
the work of Alajouanine. Jean Métellus. Inauguration of the Hospital Coast of Snows, Montreal, April 1982.
the course of Alajouanine. Jean Métellus, the new French review, 1978,305
Life of Theophilus Alajouanine, Neurologist 1890-1980. Encyclopedia Universalis. 1981. p.521,

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