Arthur Van Gehuchten takes neurology to the movies

Aubert, Geneviève

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“…Early attempts to record patients with movement disorders, mainly hemiparesis, hysteria, and gait disorders, are said to include Schuster in Berlin in 1897; Londe and Richer in Paris and Marinesco in Bucharest between 1899 and 1902; McLane Hamilton in Boston in 1905; and Van Gehuchten in Louvain between 1905 and 1911 13, 14. Fragments of the work of Marinesco and Van Gehuchten survive in the Romanian State Archives and the Royal Belgian Archives, respectively.…”

Section: Cinematography Of Movement Disordersmentioning

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A film of patients with movement disorders made in Queen Square, London in the Mid‐1920s by Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson

Reynolds

Healy

Lees³

2011

Movement Disorders

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SAKW may have been stimulated and facilitated to make this film through his personal contact with Charlie Chaplin with whom he stayed at his Californian estate, probably in the summer of 1924. The first films of neurological patients were made in Europe and USA at the beginning of the 20th century, although most have perished. This may be one of the oldest examples from UK. It is also notable for the inclusion of Wilson's disease and a brief shot of SAKW himself.

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Section: Cinematography Of Movement Disordersmentioning

confidence: 99%

A film of patients with movement disorders made in Queen Square, London in the Mid‐1920s by Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson

Reynolds

Healy

Lees³

2011

Movement Disorders

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“…Camillo Negro was not the first neurologist to film neurological patients. We still have precious movies made by Georges Marinesco (1863Marinesco ( -1938, who in Bucarest filmed patients with hemiplegia and ataxias in 1899 (Buda et al, 2009) and Arthur Van Gehuchten (1861-1914, who in 1907 filmed several patients at the Leuven University also using stills from his films as iconographic material for his scientific publications (Aubert, 2002). However, Negro was the first to organize the filmed cases in a documentary with a logical sequence and to use it in several public occasions.…”

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Professor Camillo Negro’s Neuropathological Films

Chio

Gianetto

Dagna

2015

Journal of the History of the Neurosciences

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Camillo Negro, Professor in Neurology at the University of Torino, was a pioneer of scientific film. From 1906 to 1908, with the help of his assistant Giuseppe Roasenda and in collaboration with Roberto Omegna, one of the most experienced cinematographers in Italy, he filmed some of his patients for scientific and educational purposes. During the war years, he continued his scientific film project at the Military Hospital in Torino, filming shell-shocked soldiers. In autumn 2011, the Museo Nazionale del Cinema, in partnership with the Faculty of Neurosciences of the University of Torino, presented a new critical edition of the neuropathological films directed by Negro. The Museum's collection also includes 16 mm footage probably filmed in 1930 by Doctor Fedele Negro, Camillo's son. One of these films is devoted to celebrating the effects of the so-called "Bulgarian cure" on Parkinson's disease.

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“…Movement and gait disorders were frequently recorded by the pioneers of medical cinematography. This is well known through published articles with film descriptions, which have been traced . However, surviving films of neurological patients before 1914 are extremely scarce.…”

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“…Arthur Van Gehuchten (1861–1914), the first Belgian professor of neurology, recognized the potential of cinematography for didactic purposes and documentary support . He filmed extensively and conceived the plan of a systematic cinematographic atlas of neurological diseases between 1905 and 1914.…”

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Rating Parkinson's Disease: A Contemporary Eye to Archival Patients

Jeanjean

Aubert

2014

Movement Disord Clin Pract

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In this article, we present a detailed analysis of archival films of 12 different patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). This unique collection of films was made by Arthur Van Gehuchten (1861-1914, the first professor of neurology in Belgium at the turn of the 20th century. These extraordinarily well-preserved century-old documents are a precise iconography of PD before encephalitis lethargica swept the world and with clinical features unaffected by treatments such as levodopa. In view of the universal interest of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society-sponsored revision of the UPDRS (MDS-UPDRS) in evaluating patients with PD, we based our analysis on this scale. Of course, given the lack of detailed clinical files and the impossibility of rating a number of items, rating disease severity in a strict clinimetric sense could not be achieved. However, we did this exercise in order to place these one-century-old cases in a modern perspective. In most patients, we could score numerous items of the motor examination part of the MDS-UPDRS. These archival documents constitute a superb lesson in the semiology of PD, which keeps today its fresh didactical value.

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Arthur Van Gehuchten takes neurology to the movies

Cited by 22 publications

References 8 publications

A film of patients with movement disorders made in Queen Square, London in the Mid‐1920s by Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson

A film of patients with movement disorders made in Queen Square, London in the Mid‐1920s by Samuel Alexander Kinnier Wilson

Professor Camillo Negro’s Neuropathological Films

Rating Parkinson's Disease: A Contemporary Eye to Archival Patients

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