Henry Head

Sir Henry Head
Born(1861-08-04)4 August 1861
Died8 October 1940(1940-10-08) (aged 79)
Reading, Berkshire, England
NationalityEnglish
Alma materTrinity College, Cambridge
Known forSelf-administered experiments on cutaneous sensibility
SpouseMary Ruth Mayhew (m. 1904)
AwardsRoyal Medal, 1908
Knighthood, 1927
Gold Medal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1929
Honorary Fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1930, Fellow of the Royal Society[1][2]
Scientific career
FieldsPhysiology
Neurology
Psychiatry
InstitutionsUniversity College Hospital
National Hospital, Queen Square

Sir Henry Head, FRS[1] (4 August 1861 – 8 October 1940) was an English neurologist who conducted pioneering work into the somatosensory system and sensory nerves. Much of this work was conducted on himself, in collaboration with the psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, by severing and reconnecting sensory nerves and mapping how sensation returned over time. Head-Holmes syndrome and Head-Riddoch syndrome are named after him.

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference RS1941 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Lanska, D. J. (2014). "Henry Head". In Aminoff, Michael J.; Daroff, Robert B. (eds.). Encyclopedia of the Neurological Sciences (2nd ed.). London: Elsevier. pp. 528–530. ISBN 978-0-12-385157-4.