Johann Caspar Rüegg

Johann Caspar Rüegg (born January 28, 1930 in Zurich ; † January 18, 2018 in Großsachsen ) was a Swiss physician ( physiology ).

Life

Rüegg studied medicine in Zurich and received his doctorate in 1955 from the Nobel Prize laureate and brain physiologist Walter Rudolf Hess . He then worked as a volunteer assistant at the Institute of Pharmacology at the University of Zurich and then studied biochemistry at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College) with a doctorate (Ph.D.) in 1960. He was until 1967 scientific assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and qualified as a professor in Heidelberg in 1963 in physiological chemistry (physiology and biochemistry of the blocking tone). 1964/65 he was Senior Research Officer in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford. From 1967 he was scientific advisor and professor at the Institute for Cell Physiology at the Ruhr University Bochum and from 1973 professor in Heidelberg, where he was full professor and director of the second physiological institute until his retirement in 1998. In 1985 he became Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati , where he was visiting professor in 1981.

He dealt with cell physiology and physiology of the cardiovascular system and muscles. Later he also turned to psychosomatics and wrote popular science books about it.

Rüegg made a significant contribution to the knowledge that the brain with its neural networks influences the health (immune defense and other physiological functions) of the rest of the body.

In 1974 he received the Adolf Fick Prize for Physiology. In 1998 he became a corresponding member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences . In 2011 he became an honorary member of the German Physiological Society.

Fonts

Smooth muscle tone. Physiol. Review, Volume 51, 1971, pp. 201-248
Calcium in muscle contraction: cellular and molecular physiology, Springer, 2nd edition 1992 (first 1986)
Neural plasticity and psychosomatics (2) . In: Reinhold Haux, Axel W. Bauer , Wolfgang Eich, Wolfgang Herzog , Johann Caspar Rüegg, Jürgen Windeler (eds.): Science in medicine. Part 2. Physiology and Psychosomatics. Attempts at approximation (= bridges ... writings on interdisciplinarity . Volume 4 ). VAS, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 978-3-88864-249-4 , p. 121-130 .
Brain, psyche and body. Neurobiology of Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Schattauer, 5th edition Stuttgart / New York 2011
Mind & Body: How the brain and psyche influence health, Schattauer, 2010, 3rd edition 2016
The heart-brain connection: How emotions, thinking and stress influence our heart, Schattauer 2012
How Words Work (2015)

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Axel W. Bauer : What is man? Attempts at answering medical anthropology. In: Specialized prose research - Border Crossing 8/9, 2012/2013, ISBN 978-3-86888-077-9 , pp. 437–453, here: p. 448.

personal data
SURNAME	Rüegg, Johann Caspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss physician (physiology)
DATE OF BIRTH	January 28, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Zurich
DATE OF DEATH	January 18, 2018
Place of death	Greater Saxony

[1] Axel W. Bauer : What is man? Attempts at answering medical anthropology. In: Specialized prose research - Border Crossing 8/9, 2012/2013, ISBN 978-3-86888-077-9 , pp. 437–453, here: p. 448.