Alexandre-Achille Souques, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexandre-Achille Souques

French neurologist

Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1860

Place of Birth: Peyre, Aveyron, Occitania, France

Date of Death: 25-Dec-1944

Profession: neurologist, Hospitalist physician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Alexandre-Achille Souques

  • Alexandre-Achille Cyprien Souques (6 February 1860 – 24 December 1944) was a French neurologist born in Comprégnac in the département Aveyron. Souques studied medicine in Paris, where in 1886 he became an interne and in 1891 earned his medical doctorate.
  • Afterwards he worked as médecin des hôpitaux (Hospice de la Salpêtrière), and in 1918 became a member of the Académie de Médecine.
  • With Joseph Babinski (1857-1932) and others, he was a founding member of the Societé de Neurologie de Paris. He is remembered for his extensive research of Parkinsonism, and in a 1921 treatise titled Rapport sur les syndromes parkinsoniens, he documented the importance of encephalitis lethargica as a cause of Parkinsonism.
  • With his mentor Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), he described the eponymous "Souques-Charcot geroderma", a condition that is a variant of Hutchinson–Gilford disease.
  • Souques is also credited with introducing the term "camptocormia" to describe an abnormal forward-flexed posture.

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