Birdsey renshaw biography of abraham

American neuroscientist (–)

Birdsey Renshaw (October 10, – November 23, )^[1][2] was an American electrophysiologist and neuroscientist. He is known for his discovery of the eponymous Renshaw cells^[3][4] and the Renshaw inhibition (recurrent inhibition), which is a negative feedback mechanism associated with the Renshaw cell action.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

Biography

In he graduated with an M.D. from Harvard Medical School and then joined Alexander Forbes's neurophysiological research team in Harvard Medical School's physiology department. There he learned how to record cerebral action potentials using amplifiers and cathode-ray tubes. He developed microelectrodes from ultra-clean Pyrex pipettes and applied the microelectrodes to make extracellular recordings of action potentials found in the mammalian hippocampus and cortex. In he received his PhD with thesis The Electrical Pot Biography of isaac.