Théophile Alajouanine

Théophile Alajouanine (born June 12, 1890 in Verneix , Département Allier , † May 2, 1980 in Paris ) is considered the nestor of French psychiatry .

The Foix-Alajouanine syndrome , also subacute necrotizing myelitis , and Marie-Foix-Alajouanine syndrome , a cerebellum - ataxia at an advanced age, are named after him. He worked on Kurt Kolle's three-volume collection of biographies of important psychiatrists. Kurt Kolle was the father of the well-known scout Oswalt Kolle .

Like Jean-Martin Charcot before, Alajouanine worked at the Hôpital Salpêtrière . He was a good friend of Johannes Heinrich Schultz and also known to Klaus Thomas . He is related to the well-known resistance fighter Guy Alajouanine (1924–1976).

He was u. a. interested in epilepsy due to the biography of the Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky .

Works

P. Marie , C. Foix , T. Alajouanine: De l'atrophie cérébelleuse tardive à prédominance corticale. Revue neurologique, Paris, 1922, 38: 849-885, 1082-1111.
C. Foix, T. Alajouanine: La myélite nécrotique subaiguë (Myélite centrale angiohypertrophique à évolution progressive). Paraplégie amyotrophique lentement ascendante d'abord spasmodique, puis flasque. Revue neurologique, Paris, 1926, 2: 1-42.

personal data
SURNAME	Alajouanine, Théophile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French psychiatrist, old master of French psychiatry
DATE OF BIRTH	June 12, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH	Verneix , Allier department
DATE OF DEATH	May 2, 1980
Place of death	Paris