Denise Albe-Fessard, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Denise Albe-Fessard

French neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 31-May-1916

Date of Death: 07-May-2003

Profession: neuroscientist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Denise G.
Albe-Fessard (French pronunciation: [d?niz alb?fesa?] (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.
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.
She was the first President of the International Association for the Study of Pain between 1975–1978.