Who was the cofounder of modern neurology who greatly influenced a student named Sigmund Freud?
Who was the cofounder of modern neurology who greatly influenced a student named Sigmund Freud? Correct Answer Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot, one of France’s greatest medical teachers and clinicians, was the founder, along with Duchenne de Boulogne, of modern neurology. Charcot had a lifelong association with the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris; there, in 1882, he opened what was to become the greatest neurological clinic of the time in Europe. In 1885 one of his students was Sigmund Freud, and it was Charcot’s employment of hypnosis in an attempt to discover an organic basis for hysteria that stimulated Freud's interest in the psychological origins of neurosis.