Rudolf Hess (medic, 1913)

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Rudolf Max Hess (born September 4, 1913 in Zurich ; † March 10, 2007 in Zollikerberg ) was a Swiss neurologist and epileptologist .

Life

Rudolf Hess, son of Walter Rudolf Hess , devoted himself to the Matura a study of medicine in Lausanne , Kiel , and in Zurich, graduating there 1,938th Immediately afterwards, Rudolf Hess took up a position as an assistant doctor at the Physiological Institute at the University of Zurich , which was headed by his father , where he received his doctorate in 1939 with an experimental work on the localization of the respiratory center in the extended marrow . After years of assistance in internal medicine in Lausanne and in psychiatry in Bern , Rudolf Hess began his neurological training in 1945 with the neurosurgeon Professor Hugo Krayenbühl in Zurich, who persuaded him to devote himself to the then new discipline of electroencephalography , the EEG. Hess completed the necessary training at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, mainly with William Albert Cobb and Edward Arnold Carmichael, and at the Burden Neurological Institute in Bristol with William Gray Walter .

After his return to Zurich, Rudolf Hess was appointed chief physician of the EEG station of the neurosurgical university clinic on October 1, 1948, which was subordinated to the neurological clinic in 1954 and became an independent institute for electroencephalography in 1972. Hess, who completed a six-month study visit with Herbert Jasper in Montreal between 1953 and 1954 , completed his habilitation in 1958 with a thesis on electroencephalographic studies in brain tumors . Rudolf Hess was 1962 Extraordinary , 1978 as Full Professor ad personam appointed before 1981 emeritus was.

Rudolf Hess was a founding member, longstanding board member and president of the Swiss EEG Association, today's Society for Clinical Neurophysiology, and the Swiss League Against Epilepsy . He was later awarded the honorary presidency of both companies . From 1976 to 1978 he was President of the Natural Research Society in Zurich. He was an honorary member of the Swiss Neurological Society and numerous foreign neurophysiological and epileptological societies. In 1962, Hess was recognized by the German EEG company by awarding the highest award, the Hans Berger Prize .

Rudolf Hess - he is one of the pioneers of the clinical EEG in German-speaking countries - put his research results down in around 110 scientific papers. Among other things, he described in 1952 in children with BNS epilepsy or West syndrome “diffuse mixed convulsive potentials”, which the American couple (neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist or EEG assistant) Frederic Andrews Gibbs and Erna Leonhardt Gibbs in the same year were designated as hypsarrhythmia and in 1958, for the first time in the German-speaking area, “functional” central tip foci in children, which were later recognized as the EEG correlate of Rolando epilepsy .

Fonts

  • Electroencephalographic studies in brain tumors. Stuttgart, G. Thieme 1959.
  • Sleep and Epilepsy: Abridged Version. Inaugural lecture Zurich 1959. 1959.
  • EEG primer . Basel, Sandoz 1963; English edition: EEG Handbook. Basel, Sandoz 1966 (1969 2 )
  • Vademecum of epilepsy for doctors and students. Zurich, Swiss League Against Epilepsy 1976.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ R. Hess jun, T. Neuhaus: The electroencephalogram for lightning, nodding and salaam cramps and other forms of seizure in childhood . In: Arch Psychiatrie Nervenkrankh . tape 189 , 1952, pp. 37-58 .
  2. ^ Rudolf Hess: Follow-up examinations of seizures and EEG in childhood epilepsies . In: Arch Psychiatrie Nervenkrankh . tape 197 , 1958, pp. 568-593 .
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Rudolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Rudolf Max (full name); Hess, Rudolf M .; Hess, Ruedi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss neurologist and epileptologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 2007
Place of death Zollikerberg