Horace Winchell Magoun
American physiologist and neuroscientist
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Horace Winchell Magoun's Degrees
- PhD Physiology University of California, Berkeley
- Doctorate Medicine University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Horace Winchell Magoun was a medical researcher. studied medicine first at the Rhode Island State College and the Syracuse University, graduating in medicine in 1931. In 1934 earned a Ph.D. in anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine Northwestern University, and remained in it first as a university assistant and then as professor of microscopic anatomy . In 1948, in collaboration with the Italian neurophysiologist Giuseppe Moruzzi, Magoun identified the brain center responsible for the state of sleep: electrical stimulation of the brain stem, by Moruzzi and Magoun found a link between the station cerebellum and motor cortex, producing EEG waves typical of a state of intense supervision. With further investigation showed that both the deep brain stimulation of this structure, which they named "reticular formation", caused the awakening of the animal, while its destruction made him fall into a coma permanent. With this guide "classic". Are considered "classics" those works that have been cited in over 400 scientific papers and Moruzzi Magoun laid the foundations for studying the physiology of sleep.
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