Henri Gastaut

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Henri Gastaut (born April 5, 1915 in Monaco , † July 15, 1995 in Marseille ) was a French neurologist , clinical neurophysiologist and epileptologist .

Life

Henri Gastaut studied medicine at the University of Marseille , where he received his doctorate in 1945 . He then completed training in neurology with Henri Roger and in neuroanatomy with Lucien Cornil in Marseille. In 1952 he became Cornil's successor, titular professor of pathological anatomy. In 1953 Gastaut took over the management of the neurobiological laboratories at the Marseille hospital. In 1973 the University of Marseille set up a chair for clinical neurophysiology, which Gastaut held until his retirement in 1984.

Services

His main research interests were electroencephalography and brain functions in epilepsy . In 1957 he first described the hemiconvulsion-hemiplegia-epilepsy (HHE) syndrome, which is sometimes named after him, and in 1981/1982 the benign focal epilepsy in children with occipital paroxysms. The Lennox-Gastaut syndrome was named after the American neurologist and epileptologist William G. Lennox and himself, who first described this form of epilepsy in detail from a scientific point of view and who dealt intensively with its research and delimitation from other forms of epilepsy.

Gastaut was significantly involved in the reactivation of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) in 1949 and was subsequently its "President-Elect" (1953–57), General Secretary (1957–69), President (1969–73) and "Past President" (1973-77)

literature

  • The International Who's Who. 54th Edition (1990-91). P. 552.
  • Charlotte Dravet, Joseph Roger: In Memoriam: Henri Gastaut 1915–1995 . In: Epilepsia . tape 37 , no. 4 , 1996, pp. 410-415 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1528-1157.1996.tb00580.x .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gastaut H, Vigouroux M, Trevisan C, Regis H. Le syndrome "hemiconvulsion-hemiplegie-epilepsie" (syndrome HHE). Rev Neurol (Paris) 1957; 97: 37-52
  2. ↑ Gastaut H. L'epilepsy Benigne de l'enfant à pointe-ondes occipitales. Bull Acad R Med Belg 1981; 136: 540-555
  3. ^ Gastaut H. A new type of epilepsy: benign partial epilepsy of childhood with occipital spike-waves. Clin Electroencephalogr 1982; 13: 13-22
personal data
SURNAME Gastaut, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French neurologist, clinical neurophysiologist and epileptologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Monaco
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1995
Place of death Marseille