| Recognized as a world famous German neurologist Foerster also was a neurophysiologist and at the age of 40 even entered in the practice of neurosurgery creating operations which bear his name.His investigations included studies on the disorders of mobility and sensation, localization, muscle physiology, epilepsy, brain tumors and pain. His blending of physiology, neurology and neurosurgery was instrumental in his creating his world famous cytoarchitecture map of the human cerebral cortex in 1936. |  |
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