Henri Meige was a French neurologist

Neurologist

A neurologist is a physician who specializes in neurology, and is trained to investigate, or diagnose and treat neurological disorders.Neurology is the medical specialty related to the human nervous system. The nervous system encompasses the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves. A specialist...

 born in Moulins-sur-Allier. He characterized Meige's syndrome

Meige's syndrome

Meige's syndrome is a type of dystonia. It is also known as Brueghel's syndrome and oral facial dystonia. It is actually a combination of two forms of dystonia, blepharospasm and oromandibular dystonia ....

 in 1910.

He studied medicine in Paris

Paris

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 under Jean Charcot (1825-1893), earning his doctorate in 1893. Afterwards he worked at the Salpêtrière and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the left bank in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6th arrondissement. The school has a history spanning more than 350 years,...

, where in the 1920s he was appointed professor.

With Edouard Brissaud

Édouard Brissaud

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 (1852-1909) he researched skeletal changes in acromegaly

Acromegaly

Acromegaly is a syndrome that results when the anterior pituitary gland produces excess growth hormone after epiphyseal plate closure at puberty...

, concluding that gigantism

Gigantism

Gigantism, also known as giantism , is a condition characterized by excessive growth and height significantly above average...

 in adolescents is fundamentally the same disease as acromegaly in adults. During World War I

World War I

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 he conducted studies of neuropathy with Pierre Marie (1853-1940).

Meige is best known for his work with extrapyramidal

Extrapyramidal system

In human anatomy, the extrapyramidal system is a neural network located in the brain that is part of the motor system involved in the coordination of movement. The system is called "extrapyramidal" to distinguish it from the tracts of the motor cortex that reach their targets by traveling through...

 lesions. In 1902, with Eugene Feindel, he published an important work on motor

Motor system

The motor system is the part of the central nervous system that is involved with movement. It consists of the pyramidal and extrapyramidal system....

 disturbances, blepharospasm

Blepharospasm

A blepharospasm , is any abnormal contraction or twitch of the eyelid....

s and tics. In contrast to Charcot, Meige asserted that disturbances of the extrapyramidal system were manifestations of pathological changes outside the pyramidal system.

He was editor of the journals Nouvelle iconographie de la Salpêtrière and Schriftleiter of the Revue Neurologique.

Publications

• Etude sur certains névropathes Voyageurs. Paris, 1893.
• Les tics Traitement et leur. Paris, 1902. (with Eugene Feindel)
• Tics. Paris, 1905.