Rolf Hassler in front of his elaborate wiring diagram of cortex, thalamus and basal ganglia.
Neuroanatomist, neuropathologist and neurophysiologist. Scholar of Oskar and Cecile Vogt and of Walter R. Hess. Well known for his work on the anatomy of the human thalamus and the pathophysiology of movement disorders. Later director of the Max-Planck Institute of Brain Research in Frankfurt (1961-1982).
 
Traugott Riechert. Head of the neurosurgical department at the University of Freiburg. Inaugurated stereotactic surgery in Germany as early as 1950. Together with Wolff, he developed a stereotactic device.
Fritz Mundinger. Further development of the stereotacic device together with Riechert. Surgical approach to the Zona Incerta for different movement disorders (1965). Early experimentation with therapeutic electrical stimulation of deep brain structures (deep brain stimulation, DBS) for the treatment of movement disorders as early as 1977.
 
 
 
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