Jules Cotard

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Jules Cotard ( June 1, 1840 , † August 19, 1889 ) was a French medic.

Cotard studied medicine in Paris and worked at the Hôpital Salpêtrière . Here he was interested in the effects of brain damage as a result of apoplexy . To do this, he performed autopsies to examine the damaged brain . In 1866, Cotard and the medical student Jean Louis Prévost published a paper on brain softening (encephalomalacia).

In 1869, Cotard left the Hôpital Salpêtrière. From 1870 to 1871 he took part in an infantry regiment as a surgeon in the Franco-German War . After that, Cotard settled in Vanves as a doctor . His medical research areas were diabetes mellitus and mental disorders . In 1882 he first described the appearance of the so-called denial delusion, which he called Délire de Cotard . In the German-speaking countries, the clinical features have since been summarized under the term Cotard syndrome .

Publications

  • with Jean Louis Prévost: Études physiologiques et pathologiques sur le ramollissement cérébral. 1866.
  • Etude sur l'atrophie partial du cerveau. 1868.
  • You delire des negations. In: Archive de Neurology. 1882.
  • Etudes sur les maladies cerebrales et mentales. 1891 (posthumously).
personal data
SURNAME Cotard, Jules
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French medic
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1840
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 1889