Birdsey renshaw biography channel

American neuroscientist (1911–1948)

Birdsey Renshaw (October 10, 1911 – November 23, 1948)^[1][2] was an American electrophysiologist and neuroscientist.

Birdsey renshaw biography channel

He is known for his 1941 discovery of the eponymous Renshaw cells^[3][4] and the Renshaw inhibition (recurrent inhibition), which is a negative feedback mechanism associated with the Renshaw cell action.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

Biography

In 1936 he graduated with an M.D.

from Harvard Medical School and then joined Alexander Forbes's neurophysiological research team in Harvard Medical School's physiology department. There he learned how to record cerebral action potentials using amplifiers and cathode-ray tubes.

He developed microelectrodes from ultra-clean Pyrex pipettes and applied the microelectrodes to make extracellular recordings of action potentials found in the mammalian hippocampus and cortex. In 1938 he received his PhD