Maurice Villaret

Maurice Villaret (7 September 1877 – 25 January 1946) was a French neurologist born in Paris.

He is remembered for his studies and experiments involving precision localization of vascular lesions of the brain.

This syndrome is characterized by an ipsilateral paralysis of cranial nerve numbers IX, X, XI, XII, and sometimes cranial nerve number VII.

Paralysis is caused by a lesion in the posterior retroparotid space.

With his mentor Augustin Nicolas Gilbert (1858-1927), Villaret performed extensive research involving the physiology of the portal venous system, and had particular interest in the causes of portal hypertension.