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Elio García-Austt (1919-2005) was born in Montevideo. ==Beginnings in Montevideo== García-Austt's father was Professor of Psychiatry at the School of Medicine in Montevideo and a member of the Parliament. García-Austt graduated with honors as "Doctor en Medicina y Cirugía" (M.D.) at the Universidad de la República of Uruguay in 1948 and obtained the Gold Medal, with a doctoral thesis on "Repercussion of some metabolic alterations on the bioelectric potentials". Before his graduation, in 1942, he started his career as a neuroscientist, developing the clinical electroencephalography at the ''Instituto de Endocrinología'' using the first recording equipment that existed in Uruguay. After his graduation, he continued his job as clinical neurophysiologist and at that time he published the first papers on epilepsy. His clinical career continued with the foundation and direction of five clinical electroencephalography laboratories at the most important public hospitals of Montevideo. In this time arose his interest on basic scientific research on neurophysiology, at the Department of Physiology of the Medical School of Montevideo, under the direction of the Nobel Prize Dr. Corneille Heymans, during his extended stay in Montevideo at postwar time. García-Austt claimed that his relationship with Prof. Heymans was fundamental for the start of his career as neurobiologist. In 1951, he worked in the Neurophysiology Laboratory of the Universidad Católica at Santiago de Chile, directed by Prof. Joaquin Luco, one of the most important neurobiology scientists. Back in Montevideo, he started the "Laboratorio de Neurofisiología" in collaboration with Drs. E. Migliaro and J.P. Segundo. This laboratory depended of the Biophysics and Physiology Departments. In this Neurophophysiology Laboratory, a set of neurobiological researchers was trained. Those researchers continued his works in different laboratories in Uruguay and foreign countries. At this School, García-Austt set up an Integral Course of the Nervous System which included teachers of Physiology, Biophysics, Histology, Anatomy and Pharmacology Departaments. In 1959, García-Austt created the Neurophysiology Laboratory at the "Instituto de Neurología y Neurocirugía" of the School of Medicine. He worked until 1973, when he moved to Spain. In this laboratory he performed research, both in men and animals. The research included # Evoked potentials in the man and its relationship with attention and perception; # Regulating mechanisms of sensory, auditive, visual and somesthesic inputs; # Recording and electrical stimulation during brain surgery in humans; # Oxygen pressure variation during sleep; # Physiology and physiopathology of the intracranial pressure. This research created a procedure for the diagnosis of normotensive hydrocephalia, a work which was recognized with prizes in Uruguay and Spain. During this period, the research works was financed in a big portion by foreign grants. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elio García-Austt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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