Richard Caton
Richard Caton (born July 26, 1842 , † January 2, 1926 ) was a doctor and physiologist in Liverpool . Caton first registered electrical activity from the cerebral cortex of animals in 1875. He presided in 1875 in rabbits and monkeys over the exposed cortex electrical activity and laid and thus the basis for the later in humans for the first time by the German neurologist and psychiatrist Hans Berger registered electroencephalogram (EEG). Hans Berger quoted him in his 1929 work.
In his home country he is also known as the Lord Mayor of Liverpool , who he became in 1907.
Introduction of the ECoG
With his experiments on monkeys and rabbits, Richard Caton introduced the principle of the electrocorticogram . He has observed that a galvanometer with electrodes attached to different places on the surface of the gray matter causes rashes. In particular, he has established connections between the tension on the brain surface and the function of the examined areas, for example, he has registered a change in the area associated with the eyelid closure when the opposite retina was stimulated with light.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Richard Caton; The Electric Currents of the Brain; British Medical Journal; August 28, 1875 Volume 2, Issue 765; page 278
literature
- Lord Cohen of Birkenhead: Richard Caton (1842-1926): Pioneer Electrophysiologist . Proc R Soc Med. 1959 August; 52 (8): 645-651.
- LF Haas: Hans Berger (1873-1941), Richard Caton (1842-1926), and electroencephalography . Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry 2003; 74: 9.
- Walter Ormerod: Richard Caton (1842-1926): pioneer electrophysiologist and cardiologist . Journal of Medical Biography, 14: 1 (2006), 30-35.
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| SURNAME | Caton, Richard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1842 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 2, 1926 |