Laurent Cerise

Laurent Alexis Philibert Cerise (27 February 1807 – 5 October 1869) was a French physician born in Aosta (today part of Italy).

His early written articles appeared in the magazine L'Européen, and due to their social and philosophical content, gained the attention of the learned society in Paris.

The same year he released "L'Exposé et examen critique du système phrénologique de Gall" (Presentation and review of Franz Joseph Gall's phrenological system), where he disparages the limitations of purely "materialistic medicine".

Another noted work of his was "Des fonctions et des maladies nerveuses dans leurs rapports avec l'e´ducation sociale et privee, morale et physique" (Functions and nervous diseases in their dealings with private and social education, moral and physical, 1840).

In 1843 with Jacques-Joseph Moreau (1804–1884), Jules Baillarger (1809–1890) and François Achille Longet (1811–1871), he founded the psychiatric journal "Annales médico-psychologiques".