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Biography Revised: 6/11/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006

PHOTO: Zhang Xiangtong
Zhang Xiangtong 张香桐
Neurophysiologist

Biography

Zhang Xiangtong, male, Han nationality, is a native of Zhengding, Hebei Province. He graduated from Beijing University in 1933 and received a doctorate from the medical school of Yale University.

Zhang was the first to propose the idea of pallium motor areas representing muscles. According to his analysis of the induced potential on the vision cortex, Zhang introduced the three-color conduction theory in vision passage. His discovery, "Light Intensification" phenomenon, was named the "Zhang Effect" by the global physiological circle.

Zhang was the first to discover tab potential and he engaged in research on using acupuncture to ease pain. The mechanism that allowed acupuncture to ease pain was the result of an interaction by two series of feelings introduced into the central nervous system.

Zhang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Career Data

1957— Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Honorable Dean, Shanghai Brain Research Institute Shanghai Municipality
Researcher, Shanghai Brain Research Institute Shanghai Municipality
Graduate, Yale University, Physiology Department USA, Connecticut, New Haven (Received Doctorate)
1933 Graduate, Beijing University, Psychology Department Beijing Municipality


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