Elio García-Austt Negri, Uruguayan neurophysiologist (Montevideo 09 April 1919 – Montevideo 12 August 2005)

ACHIEVEMENTS

First demonstrated strychnine spikes in the chick embryo (1954)

Found that counting repetitive light flashes augmented the visual response (1963-4)

With Rius described the slow response of auditory galvanic stimulation (1965)

First to demonstrate that stimulation of limbic structures provokes dormancy and decreases in electroencephalogram frequency 

Developed a technique for diagnosing normotensive hidrocephaly  

With P. Handler developed a simple method for magnetic tape recording of bioelectric potentials (1960) and computational procedures in neurophysiology