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A. (Angelo) Mosso
1846–1910
A pioneering Italian physiologist, he helped lay the groundwork for modern brain imaging while also studying fatigue, circulation, and life at high altitude. His curiosity ranged widely, from laboratory instruments to archaeology and the science of the mountains.
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Mesmer e il magnetismo La vita italiana durante la Rivoluzione francese e l'Impero
by A. (Angelo) Mosso
Fear
by A. (Angelo) Mosso
About the author
Born in Turin on May 30, 1846, Angelo Mosso became one of Italy's best-known physiologists of the late nineteenth century. He is remembered especially for experiments that linked mental activity with changes in blood flow to the brain, work that is often described as an early step toward modern neuroimaging.
Mosso taught at the University of Turin and built a reputation as an inventive experimental scientist. He studied fatigue, respiration, circulation, and physical performance, and he developed instruments to measure bodily responses with unusual precision for his time. His research also extended beyond the laboratory into high-altitude physiology, reflecting a lifelong interest in mountains and the effects of extreme environments on the human body.
His interests were remarkably broad. In addition to medicine and physiology, he was involved in archaeology and wrote for a wider public as well as for specialists. He died in Turin on November 24, 1910, leaving behind a body of work that still appears in histories of neuroscience, exercise science, and altitude research.