Article: Professor Sven Andersson in memoriam--the Swedish father of Acupuncture.(Obituary)

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Sven Andersson, professor in Physiology at Gothenburg University, has died at the age of 79 after a long illness. Professor Andersson was born in 1927 in Gesater in Dalsland, in the western parts of Sweden. He started his medical studies in Gothenburg, where he remained throughout most of his career.

Professor Andersson began his scientific career in the neurophysiology section of the Physiology department at Gothenburg University. His initial research was focused on the motor system, and during 1959-60 he was based at Vernon Mountcastle's laboratory in Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. In Mountcastle's laboratory he ...

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