Jean-Martin Charcot
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Jean-Martin Charcot was a French neurologist and professor of anatomical pathology, widely regarded as a founder of modern neurology. His influential work on hysteria, hypnosis, and neurological disease shaped both neurology and psychiatry, and he taught Sigmund Freud during Freud’s studies in Paris.
2 episodes featuring Jean-Martin Charcot
This Podcast Will Kill You
ALS research confronts a disease with many faces
ALS remains devastating and biologically complex, while limited treatments and emerging therapies make better diagnosis and research models urgent.
Sep 29, 2026 · 1h 23m
Lex Fridman Podcast
Psychiatry confronts its history of certainty and harm
The episode asks how a field with an uncertain evidence base can treat severe suffering without repeating the institutional and commercial abuses of its past.
Sep 17, 2026 · 3h 44m