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Rev Neurol (Paris). 2022 Jun;178(6):532-538. doi: 10.1016/j.neurol.2021.07.024. Epub 2021 Nov 17.
Henry Meige (1866-1940), a French neurologist, the pupil of Charcot, is remembered for the eponym, the Meige syndrome, describing the clinical picture of craniocervical dystonia. This historical review highlights the controversies from his essay on "Le Juif Errant" (the Wandering Jew), and the evolution of his understanding of the movement disorders of the face and neck at the time of the encephalitis lethargica.
His thesis reported 5 patients from Eastern Europe, presenting with functional neurological disorders following traumatic life experiences. He wrote with Feindel the first book on movement disorders "Les tics et leur traitement". He pioneered the concept of focal dystonia and distinguished the facial median spasm as a dystonic movement disorder of the face. He highlighted the co-existence of psychopathology and the influence of the mental on tics and dystonia. He coined with Brissaud and Feindel the term "geste antagoniste" in cervical dystonia. He emphasized the importance of self-management and psycho-motor retraining for focal dystonia.
Meige made an invaluable contribution to our understanding of movement disorders, during his long medical career. The eponym Meige syndrome should be retained to describe an individual clinical entity.
亨利·梅杰（Henry Meige）（1866-1940 年），法国神经病学家，沙可（Charcot）的学生，以同名综合征“梅杰综合征”而闻名，用于描述颅颈肌张力障碍的临床特征。本研究回顾了他关于“流浪的犹太人”（Le Juif Errant）一文的争议，以及他在昏睡性脑炎时期对面颈部运动障碍认识的演变。
他的论文报告了来自东欧的 5 例患者，这些患者在创伤性生活经历后出现功能性神经障碍。他与费因德尔（Feindel）合著了第一部关于运动障碍的书籍《抽搐及其治疗》。他开创了局灶性肌张力障碍的概念，并将面中部痉挛区分为面肌的一种痉挛性运动障碍。他强调了精神病理学的共存和精神因素对抽搐和肌张力障碍的影响。他与布拉萨德（Brissaud）和费因德尔（Feindel）一起创造了颈肌张力障碍中的“拮抗动作”一词。他强调了自我管理和运动再训练对局灶性肌张力障碍的重要性。
梅杰在其漫长的医学职业生涯中，对我们对运动障碍的理解做出了不可估量的贡献。梅杰综合征的命名应保留下来描述一个特定的临床实体。
