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Sir Henry Head | |
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| Born | 4 August 1861 Stoke Newington, Middlesex, England |
| Died | 8 October 1940 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | English |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Known for | Self-administered experiments on cutaneous sensibility |
| Spouse | Mary Ruth Mayhew (m. 1904) |
| Awards | Royal 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 | |
| Fields | Physiology Neurology Psychiatry |
| Institutions | University 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.
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RS1941was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ 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.