13 Facts About Joseph Babinski

Joseph Jules Francois Felix Babinski was a French-Polish professor of neurology.

Joseph Babinski is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage.

Joseph Babinski received his medical degree from the University of Paris in 1884.

Joseph Babinski was a masterful clinician, minimally dependent on neuropathological examinations and laboratory tests.

Joseph Babinski took an interest in the pathogenesis of hysteria and was the first to present acceptable differential-diagnostic criteria for separating hysteria from organic diseases, and coined the concept of pithiatism.

In 1914, Joseph Babinski introduced the important concept of 'anosognosia' to name a disorder characterized by denial of illness or lack of awareness of disability.

Joseph Babinski was professor of neurology at the University of Paris.

Joseph Babinski lived in the Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, with his elder brother, Henri Joseph Babinski, a distinguished engineer and famous food writer who, as "Ali Bab", published a classic cookbook.

Joseph Babinski died in the same year as two great Polish neurologists, Edward Flatau and Samuel Goldflam.

Joseph Babinski was buried in the in the family tomb, alongside his brother, who had died a year before.

Joseph Babinski lived to see his achievements in French neurology internationally acclaimed.

Joseph Babinski was honored by Poland in 1925 as honorary professor of the Wilno University, by the American Neurological Society, and by other foreign societies.

Joseph Babinski was a patron of the three large neuro-psychiatric hospitals in Poland.