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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gómez-López, Mariana Teresa
• Palacios-Sánchez, Leonardo
• Meerbeke, Alberto Vélez van
• Botero-Meneses, Juan Sebastián

Titel

Désiré-Magloire Bourneville and his contributions to pediatric neurology

Ist Teil von

• Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria, 2019-04, Vol.77 (4), p.289-291

Ort / Verlag

Brazil: Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek - Frei zugängliche E-Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Désiré-Magloire Bourneville ought to be thought of as the father of Pediatric Neurology for his significant contributions to the field. He worked as a physician, politician, writer, and editor. He was the first to describe the autosomal dominant genetic condition known as "tuberous sclerosis complex", after conducting an autopsy on a young female patient, where the main finding in the central nervous system was multiple dense tubers. The patient had refractory epilepsy and intellectual disability. His work was based on the study of epilepsy and idiocy, and he was also an advocate of public health and social medicine education; creating day hospital programs for children with this type of neurologic disease.