Herbert H. Jasper and the Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies

P>Herbert H. Jasper dedicated his life to neuroscience and to epilepsy. He pioneered electroencephalography (EEG) as a tool for studying brain activity in relation to states of consciousness, learning, and epileptic discharge. He also used microelectrodes to record from single neurons and synapses, combined with studies of the underlying neurochemical mechanisms. For an expanded treatment of this topic see Jasper's Basic Mechanisms of the Epilepsies, Fourth Edition (Noebels JL, Avoli M, Rogawski MA, Olsen RW, Delgado-Escueta AV, eds) published by Oxford University Press (available on the National Library of Medicine Bookshelf [NCBI] at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books).