Epilepsy

New Epilepsy Data Have Been Reported by Researchers at University of Illinois

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, April 8th, 2012

2012 APR 8 -- "Frederic Gibbs' (1903-1992) long research career was devoted to the understanding and treatment of epileptic phenomena and closely associated with the development of electroencephalography (EEG). After medical school, he joined the Harvard Neurological Unit at Boston City Hospital directed by Stanley Cobb," scientists in Chicago, Illinois report.

"In the early 1930s, Gibbs developed a thermoelectric blood flow probe and, with William Lennox, proved in animals and humans that a seizure increases cerebral blood flow. By 1934, Gibbs became a pioneer in the field of EEG while working at Harvard with Hallowell Davis and Lennox, and was the first...

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