The ''Revue neurologique'' (''Neurological Review'') is a French
neurological
Neurology (from el, νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal c ...
and
psychiatric
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Initial psyc ...
medical journal
A medical journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that communicates medical information to physicians, other health professionals. Journals that cover many medical specialties are sometimes called general medical journals.
History
The first ...
.
It was established in 1893 with
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot (; 29 November 1825 – 16 August 1893) was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology. He worked on hypnosis and hysteria, in particular with his hysteria patient Louise Augustine Gleizes. Charcot is known a ...
as adviser.
[ Today it is the official journal of the Société Française de Neurologie (French Neurology Society). According to the '']Journal Citation Reports
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'', the journal has a 2016 impact factor
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of 1.039.
The monthly journal became the main periodical in France devoted to psychiatry and nervous diseases. It was made the official journal of the Société de Neurologie de Paris when the society was founded in 1899. It gradually displaced the quarterly ''Archives de Neurologie'', publishing original articles by prominent French neurologists such as Charcot, Joseph Jules Dejerine, Édouard Brissaud
Édouard Brissaud (15 April 1852, Besançon – 20 December 1909) was a French physician and pathologist. He was taught by Jean Martin Charcot at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital. He had interests in a number of medical disciplines including motion d ...
and Fulgence Raymond
Fulgence Raymond (29 September 1844 – 28 September 1910) was a French neurologist born in Saint-Christophe-sur-le-Nais, Indre-et-Loire.
Originally trained as a veterinarian, he later studied human medicine under Alfred Vulpian (1826–1887 ...
, as well as work from foreign researchers including Charles Scott Sherrington
Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was an eminent English neurophysiologist. His experimental research established many aspects of contemporary neuroscience, including the concept of the spinal reflex as a system ...
of Great Britain, Alexander E. Scherbak of Russia, and João Baptista de Lacerda
João Batista de Lacerda (12 July 1846 – 6 August 1915), was a physician and one of the pioneering Brazilian biomedical scientists in the fields of experimental physiology and pharmacology.
Biography
Born in Campos dos Goytacazes in 1846, Jo ...
of Argentine.[ In November 1901 the ''Revue Neurologique'' published a report by ]Ladislav Haškovec
Ladislav Haškovec (May 18, 1866 – January 16, 1944) was a Czech neuropsychiatrist, eugenicist, and physician, professor of neuropathology at the Charles University in Prague. In November 1901 he coined the term " akathisia" in the journal ''Revu ...
of Prague describing two cases of akathisia
Akathisia is a movement disorder characterized by a subjective feeling of inner restlessness accompanied by mental distress and an inability to sit still. Usually, the legs are most prominently affected. Those affected may fidget, rock back a ...
. The journal also published summary articles that went into great detail on a particular topic.[
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