Denise Albe-Fessard

Denise G. Albe-Fessard (French pronunciation: [dəniz albəfesaʁ] (listen); 1916–7 May 2003) was a French neuroscientist best known for her basic research into the central nervous system pain pathways, clarifying the distinction between lateral and medial thalamic pain processing. She graduated with a degree in engineering from the School of Physique et Chimie de Paris in 1937 and received a Doctor és Sciences degree from Paris University in 1950. She was a Chevalier (Knight) of the Legion of Honour and an Officer of the Order of Merit.[1] Early on, Albe-Fessard studied the electrical activity of electric fish. Her work on microelectrode recordings of a cat's cerebral cortex in the 1950s was one of the first intracellular recordings of a mammalian brain.[2] She was the first President of the International Association for the Study of Pain between 1975–1978.

Publications

• Atlas stéréotaxique du diencéphale du rat blanc, 1966
• La Douleur : ses mécanismes et les bases de ses traitements, 1996

References

1. "In Memoriam: Denise Albe-Fessard". International Association for the Study of Pain. Retrieved 7 June 2014.
2. Shepherd, Gordon M. (2010). Creating Modern Neuroscience: The Revolutionary 1950s. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 139–140. ISBN 978-0-19-974147-2. Denise Albe-Fessard.

Further reading

• Barraquer-Bordas L. (Nov 2003). "In memoriam. Denise Albe Fessard (1916-2003)". Revista de Neurología (in Spanish). 37 (9): 898–900. PMID 14606060.
• Berkley, K. J. (2004). "Madame Albe-Fessard: A meaningful legacy". European Journal of Pain. London, England. 8 (2): 95–7. doi:10.1016/j.ejpain.2003.11.008. PMID 14987613.
• Rokyta, Richard (2004). "In memoriam of Professor Denise Albe-Fessard". European Journal of Pain. London, England. 8 (2): 107–108. doi:10.1016/j.ejpain.2003.11.013.
• Larry R. Squire, ed. (1996). "Denise Albe-Fessard". The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography VOLUME 1. Washington D.C: Society for Neuroscience. ISBN 0-916110-51-6.