page_title: Otfrid Foerster
hierarchical_section_title: Otfrid Foerster
caption_attribution_description: English: Scan of photo of three founders of modern neurosurgery - Foerster, Olivecrona and Toennis Русский: Скан фотографии трёх основателей современной нейрохирургии - Отфрида Фёрстера, Герберта Оливекроны и Вильгельма Тённиса
context_page_description: Otfrid Foerster 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, and the first surgeries for epilepsy. He is also known as the first to describe the dermatomes, and he helped map the motor cortex of the cerebrum.
context_section_description: Otfrid Foerster (9 November 1873 – 15 June 1941) 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, and the first surgeries for epilepsy. 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.
caption: Otfrid Foerster, Herbert Olivecrona and Wilhelm Tönnis
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