Frederic A. Gibbs

Frederic Andrews Gibbs ( * February 9, 1903, † 18 October 1992 in Northbrook, Illinois) was an American neurologist, known as a pioneer of the use of EEG in epilepsy.

Life

Gibbs studied at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University with a degree in 1929 and was then Fellow in Neuropathology at Stanley Cobb at Harvard Medical School, located at Boston City Hospital. There also worked William Lennox and the German -born Erna Leonhardt (1904-1987) in epilepsy research. Gibbs married Leonhardt in 1930 and later worked closely with her. In 1935, he visited Hans Berger, the father of the EEG, on a visit to Europe. In the same year he had to develop a three-channel EEG by MIT graduates Albert Grass. In 1944 he was a professor at the University of Illinois School of Medicine in Chicago as director of a company incorporated at the time of his epilepsy clinic. In 1975, he went into retirement.

He was one of the first to EEG patterns brought with them certain neuronal injury in the brain in connection and so made ​​it a diagnostic tool. He also refuted some still widespread in the 1930s, theories of epilepsy ( for example, you took the time to frequent that cause spasms of blood vessels in the brain were ).

He and his wife founded the American EEG Society, the Brain Research Foundation and the American Medical EEG Association. In 1951 he received the Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. He was three honorary doctorates.

Writings

• With Erna Gibbs: Atlas of electroencephalography, 1941, 2nd edition 1951