Henry Head
(1861–1940)
English neurologist who conducted pioneering work into the somatosensory system and sensory nerves.

This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "H. H."

Henry Head

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  • 'On the regulation of respiration' (Journal of Physiology, Cambridge, 1889, 10: 1-70, 279-290)
  • 'On the disturbances of sensation, with special reference to the pain of visceral disease'. Thesis for M.D. (Brain, Oxford, 1893, 16: 1-133. / Brain, Oxford, 1894, 17: 339-480. / Brain, Oxford, 1896, 19: 153-276.)
  • Henry Head and Alfred Walter Campbell: 'The pathology of herpes zoster and its bearing on sensory location'. (Brain, London, 1900, 23: 353-523.)
  • Henry Head, William Halse Rivers Rivers and James Sherren: 'The afferent nervous system from a new aspect'. (Brain, London, 1905, 28: 99-115.)
  • Henry Head and James Sherren: 'The consequences of injury to the peripheral nerves in man'. (Brain, London, 1905, 28: 116-138.)
  • William Halse Rivers Rivers and Henry Head: 'A human experiment in nerve division' (Brain, London, 1908, 31: 323-450)
  • Henry Head and Harold Theodore Thompson: 'The grouping of afferent impulses within the spinal cord'. (Brain, 1906, 29: 537-741.)
  • Henry Head, G. M. Holmes: 'Sensory disturbances from cerebral lesions'. (Brain, 1911, 34: 102-254.)
  • 'First systematic account of the functions of the thalamus and its relationship to the cerebral cortex'. (Reprinted in Studies in Neurology, 1920.)
  • Henry Head, G. M. Holmes: 'Sensory disturbances from cerebral lesions'. (Brain, 1911, 34: 102-254.)
  • Henry Head, W.H.R Rivers, Gordon Morgan Holmes, J. Sherren, H. T. Thompson, G. Riddoch: 'Studies in Neurology'. (2 volumes. London, H. Frowde, Hodder & Stoughton, 1920.)
  • Henry Head and William Halse Rivers Rivers:
  • 'Aphasia and kindred disorders of speech'. (2 volumes. Cambridge University Press London, 1926.)
  • "Gaskell, Walter Holbrook," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)

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Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1940, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 83 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 

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