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Henry Meige: The man and his understanding of dystonia, at the turn of the 19th to 20th century
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Revue Neurologique; June 2022, Vol. 178 Issue: 6 p532-538, 7p
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00353787
Abstract
•His essay reported 5 Eastern European Jewish patients with post traumatic functional disorders.•He wrote with Feindel in 1902 the first book on movement disorders “the tics and their treatment”.•He described the median facial spasm known as Meige syndrome or craniocervical dystonia.•He coined the term « geste antagoniste » as a hallmark of cervical dystonia.•Patients with encephalitis lethargica changed his view from mental to convulsive torticollis.•He pioneered the concept of focal dystonia.