It must be born in mind that one does not see directly - as is the case in the exploration of the surface of the brain - where the electrodes are attacking.

Life
Hess was born in Frauenfeld as the second of three children to Clemens Hess and Gertrud Hess (née Fischer). On the other hand stimulation of the posterior part led to extreme excitement and defense-like behavior. He developed a viscosimeter to measure blood viscosity and publiWalter Rudolf Hessd his dissertation in 1906 titled Zum Thema Viskosität des Blutes und Herzarbeit.

Walter Rudolf Hess (March 17 1881 – August 12 1973) was a Swiss physiologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for mapping the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs. He shared the prize with Egas Moniz.