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04.05.2018 | Cover Editorial
André Léri (1875–1930 AD) and his legacy to neuroscience
Erschienen in: Child's Nervous System | Ausgabe 8/2019
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André Léri (1875–1930 AD) proposed a unique test, which is still used today, for the diagnosis of L3-L4 nerve compression, the so-called “Léri’s sign” [1]. Léri was a French neurologist born in Paris (Fig. 1 and cover). He trained under Joseph Babinski, a pupil of neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot and remembered for his “Babinski reflex.” During the second half of the 19th and the early 20th century, scientific works of famous Parisian neurologists including Léri’s unique legacy to neuroscience made Paris a renowned center of neurology [2, 3]. With support of Babinski, he became a member of the Académie de Neurologie in 1904 [1]. In 1910, Léri was appointed as associate professor at the University of Paris, Faculty of Medicine [1]. Between 1914 and 1918, he led medical military hospitals [1] and wrote on such diseases as tabes dorsalis in syphilis and lipomata [4, 5]. He documented mental disorders, such as hysteria, psychosis, nevrosis, psycho-nevrosis, and neurasthenia [1].
Fig. 1 and cover
André Léri (1875–1930 AD), examining for his sign, and the anatomy involved with this sign
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