301. Hysteria to conversion disorders: Babinski's contributions
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Marleide da Mota Gomes and Eliasz Engelhardt
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history of Neurology ,Psychoanalysis ,Hysteria ,hysteria ,lcsh:RC321-571 ,Medical Illustration ,medicine ,história da Neurologia ,histeria ,somatoform disorder ,lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry ,Conversion disorder ,transtorno somatoforme ,PITHIATISM ,Babinski ,conversion disorder ,History, 19th Century ,History, 20th Century ,medicine.disease ,Conversion Disorder ,Neurology ,transtorno de conversão ,Neurology (clinical) ,Psychology ,Brazil ,Charcot - Abstract
The main objective of this paper is to present the importance of hysteria on Babinski's oeuvre, and the conceptions of pithiatism from Babinski until the one of conversion disorder. Babinski gave a mental basis for hysteria in the place of Charcot's encephalopatic one, and several important semiotic tools to differentiate organic from hysterical manifestations based on studies from 1893-1917/8. His teachings were spread worldwide, and in Brazil they were also appreciated in the work on hysteria by Antonio Austregesilo, the first Brazilian neurology chairman. The neurobiological basis of hysteria conceived by Charcot is nowadays reappraised, and Babinski's neurosemiological contribution is everlasting. The patients believed to be hysterical, and the two outstanding neurologists, Charcot and Babinski, gave support for the development of the modern neurology. O objetivo principal deste trabalho é apresentar a importância da histeria na obra de Babinski e a concepção de pitiatismo de Babinski até a de transtorno de conversão. Babinski deu uma base mental para histeria no lugar da encefalopática de Charcot, e várias ferramentas semiológicas importantes para diferenciar manifestações orgânicas de histéricas, com base em estudos de 1893-1917/8. Seus ensinamentos foram disseminados em todo o mundo, e no Brasil eles também foram apreciados no trabalho sobre a histeria por Antonio Austregésilo, o primeiro catedrático da neurologia brasileira. A base neurobiológica da histeria concebida por Charcot é reavaliada hoje em dia, e a contribuição neurosemiológica de Babinski é perene. Os pacientes considerados histéricos e os dois grandes neurologistas, Charcot e Babinski, deram suporte para o desenvolvimento da neurologia moderna.
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- 2014