Pierre Bonnier
Pierre Bonnier (16 August 1861 in Templeuve – 22 March 1918 in Paris) was a French otologist. He was the brother of architect Louis Bonnier (1856–1946).
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He studied medicine in Paris, and in 1897 began work as an assistant in the medical clinic of the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris. In 1901 he was named president of Société d’Otologie et de Laryngologie de Paris. He was a member of the Institut Psychologique (from 1902) and the Société de Neurologie (from 1903).[1]
He specialized in research of auditory and vestibular systems and their disorders.[1] The eponymous "Bonnier syndrome" is a syndrome characterized by deafness, ocular disturbances and other symptoms due to a lesion of the nucleus of Deiters.[2][3] Around 1905 he introduced the term aschématie (aschematia) for a group of symptoms indicated by an inadequate account of the space occupied by some part of the body.[4]
Selected works
- Vertige, 1894 – Vertigo.
- L'oreille, 1896 – The ear.
- L'audition, 1901 – Hearing.
- Le sens des attitudes, 1904 – Sensory dispositions.
- La voix, sa culture physiologique; théorie nouvelle de la phonation, 1907 – The voice, its physiological culture (new theory of phonation).
- L'action directe sur les centres nerveux: centrothérapie, 1913 – Direct action on the nerve centers, centrotherapy.[5]
- Défense organique et centres nerveux, 1914 – Organic defense and nerve centers.[6]
References
- Classic Cases in Neuropsychology, Volume 2 edited by Chris Code, Yves Joanette, Andre Roch Lecours, Claus-W. Wallesch
- Bonnier syndrome Medlexicon
- Companion to Clinical Neurology by William Pryse-Phillips
- A Dictionary of Hallucinations by Jan Dirk Blom
- HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)
- Most widely held works about Pierre Bonnier WorldCat Identities