Joseph Babinski

Joseph Babinski
Born
Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (Józef Julian Franciszek Feliks Babiński)

(1857-11-17)17 November 1857
Paris, France
Died29 October 1932(1932-10-29) (aged 74)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Alma materUniversity of Paris
OccupationNeurology
Known forBabinski sign

Joseph Jules François Félix Babinski (Polish: Józef Julian Franciszek Feliks Babiński; 17 November 1857 – 29 October 1932) was a French-Polish professor of neurology. He is best known for his 1896 description of the Babinski sign, a pathological plantar reflex indicative of corticospinal tract damage.

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