Joseph Jules Dejerine

Joseph Jules Dejerine (3 August 1849 – 26 February 1917) was a French neurologist.^[1]

Early life and education

Dejerine was born to French parents in Geneva, Switzerland,^[1] where his father was a carriage proprietor. During the Franco-Prussian War (1870) Dejerine worked as a volunteer in a Geneva Hospital and in the spring of 1871 decided to pursue his medicine studies in Paris. In France, he was introduced to and subsequently became a pupil of Alfred Vulpian, a notable neurologist.^[2]

Career

In 1877, Dejerine was appointed to the

Personal life

In 1888, Dejerine married Augusta Déjerine-Klumpke, his student, who had studied medicine in Paris; in 1887, she was the first woman named an interne des hôpitaux.^[1]

Death

Dejerine became physically debilitated by the stress of work in a military hospital during the World War I.^[3] He died in 1917 of uremia at age 68.

Legacy

The centenary of his birth was commemorated in 1949 at the fourth International Neurological Congress in Paris, when Dejerine's pupil, André Thomas, gave a discourse on his mentor's life and achievements.

Dejerine was one of the pioneers in the study of localisation of function in the

Dejerine's numerous publications span a period of more than 40 years. Like many eminent neurologists of his era, Dejerine became interested in psychology in the later stages of his career and he is remembered as a proponent of the view that the personality of the psychotherapist is crucial in any interaction with the patient.

• He once said, "In man, emotion is almost everything and reason very little."

Associated eponyms

• Dejerine's "onion-peel sensory loss": Sensory loss starting from mouth and nose and extending concentrically outward observed in lesions of the
  trigeminal nucleus
  .
• Dejerine's cortical sensory syndrome: Loss of
  touch, pain, temperature and vibration seen in parietal lobe
  lesion.
• Dejerine-Mouzon syndrome: Another parietal lobe syndrome with severe impairment of the primary modalities of sensation (
  tactile, and vibratory sense
  ).
• hemiplegia syndrome seen in neurovascular bulbar lesions. In English-speaking countries, this alternating syndrome is better known as Jackson's syndrome after John Hughlings Jackson
  (1835 - 1911).
• Dejerine syndrome can also refer to pure alexia.
• Augusta Dejerine-Klumpke
  .
• Dejerine-Roussy syndrome: Syndrome due to lesions of the posterior thalamus. Named along with French physician Gustave Roussy
  (1874–1948).
• neuropathy characterised by motor and sensory disturbance in the limbs commencing in childhood or adolescence. Named along with French neurologist Jules Sottas
  (1866–1945).
• Dejerine-Thomas olivopontocerebellar atrophy: A sporadically occurring form of chronic progressive ataxia.
• Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome: A hereditary form of slowly progressive muscular dystrophy involving primarily the musculature of the shoulders and face, with pattern of inheritance autosomal dominant. Named along with French physician Louis Théophile Joseph Landouzy
  (1845–1917).

Bibliography

• Recherches sur les lésions du système nerveux dans la paralysie ascendante aiguë. Paris, 1879
• L'héredité dans les maladies du système nerveux. Paris, 1886
• Anatomie des centres nerveux, with Augusta Marie Dejerine-Klumpke. 2 volumes, Paris, 1895 and 1901
• Traité des maladies de la moëlle épinière, with André Thomas. Paris, 1902
• Sémiologie des affections du système nerveux, with Augusta Marie Dejerine-Klumpke. Paris, 1914

References

1. ^
   ISBN 978-0-19-162720-0
   .
2. ISBN 978-0-930405-26-7
   .
3. ISBN 978-1-4419-0340-2
   .
4. ISBN 978-1-879284-49-4
   .

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