Fils de Théophile-Timothée Courtois (1854–1940), médecin, Adolphe Courtois (1903–1935), élève de Léon Marchand (1873–1976), collaborateur et beau-frère d’Édouard Toulouse (1865–1947) à l’hôpital Henri-Rousselle, fut externe des hôpitaux (1923), interne des Asiles de la Seine (1927), médecin-assistant puis médecin des Asiles d’aliénés (1931). Durant sa courte carrière, il entreprit de nombreuses recherches biologiques et anatomo-pathologiques, abordant des sujets où neurologie et psychiatrie s’intriquent. Nous revenons sur ses travaux qui font de lui un bio-psychiatre de la première heure.

Adolphe Courtois (1903–1935) was the son of Théophile-Timothée Courtois (1854–1940), who graduated first as doctor in medicine. He became Léon Marchand’s pupil (1873–1976), and then, Edouard Toulouse’s collaborator and brother-in-law (1865–1947) in the Henri-Rousselle Hospital, where he had been an « extern » (1923). Subsequently, he became intern of the Seine’s Department’s asylums (1927), assistant then attending Physician (1931). During his short career, he was involved in many biological and anatomo-pathological research projects involving human patients afflicted by various neuropsychiatric syndromes. A meta-analysis of his lifetime endeavors made it justifiable to qualify him as a biological psychiatrist.