Otfrid foerster biography of mahatma

German neurologist and neurosurgeon

Otfrid Foerster (9 November – 15 June ) was a German neurologist and neurosurgeon, who made innovative contributions to neurology and neurosurgery, such as rhizotomy for the treatment of spasticity, anterolateral cordotomy for pain, the hyperventilation test for epilepsy, Foerster's syndrome, the first electrocorticogram of a brain tumor,^[1] and the first surgeries for epilepsy.^[2] He is also known as the first to describe the dermatomes (an area of skin that is supplied by a single pair of dorsal nerve roots), and he helped map the motor cortex of the cerebrum.^[3][4]

Life

Foerster was born in Breslau (now Wrocław) to Richard Foerster, and studied in the Maria Magdalenen Gymnasium, graduating From to he studied medicine in Freiburg, Kiel and Breslau, obtaining his licensure by state examination in and his doctorate in the same year.

Upon completion of the doctoral studies, he sp