Theodore Rasmussen
Theodore Brown Rasmussen (born April 28, 1910 in Provo , Utah, † January 23, 2002 in Calgary , Canada) was a Canadian neurologist and neurosurgeon.
Rasmussen was Chairman of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University in Montreal from 1954 to 1960. From 1960 to 1972 he succeeded Wilder Penfield as director of the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University .
Rasmussen was a pioneer in epilepsy surgery . In 1950, together with Wilder Penfield, he published the world-famous homunculi , which represent the somatosensory and motor cortex . They are published again and again in various textbooks. In 1958, together with two colleagues, he first described the encephalitis that was later named after him ( Rasmussen's encephalitis ).
Rasmussen was, among other things, 1961–62 President of the American Epilepsy Society (AES).
In 1979 he was awarded the “Ambassador for Epilepsy” by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and the International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) and in 1986 with the AES Lennox Award.
Works
- Wilder Penfield, Theodore Rasmussen: The Cerebral Cortex of Man. A Clinical Study of Localization of Function . The Macmillan Comp, New York 1950, OCLC 974113409 .
- Frederick Andermann , Theodore Rasmussen: Chronic Encephalitis and Epilepsy : Rasmussen's Syndrome . Butterworth-Heinemann, 1991, ISBN 0-7506-9009-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Spitzer : Spirit on the Net. Models for learning, thinking and acting. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8274-0109-7 , p. 116.
- ↑ T. Rasmussen, J. Olszewski, D. Lloyd-Smith: Focal seizures due to chronic localized encephalitis. In: Neurology . tape 8 , 1958, pp. 435-445 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rasmussen, Theodore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rasmussen, Theodore Brown (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian neurologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 28, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Provo , Utah |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 23, 2002 |
| Place of death | Calgary , Canada |