Abstract
Giovanni Aldini was an Italian physicist interested in propagating Galvanism. With his uncle, Luigi Galvani, he learned techniques of electrical stimulation in humans and helped him to develop them. He later developed his own ideas and created transcranial electric stimulation. This paper presents some of Aldini's personal and professional traits, showing his trajectory and how his performance was important for the development of non-invasive brain stimulation techniques as a whole. Through research on animals and, later, on cadavers, his fundamental discoveries at the beginning of the treatment proposals are used so far.
Highlights
Giovanni Aldini was an Italian physicist interested in propagating Galvanism
Giovanni Aldini (Figure 1) was born in Bologna, Italy, on April 10, 1762 and died at age 71 on January 17, 1834. He was the nephew of Luigi Galvani, a physician and physicist who conducted one of the first studies on Bioelectricity, helped by Aldini himself[1]
Aldini later became a professor of Physics in 1798, and his work was mainly focused on Galvanism and its medical applications, including the construction and lighting of lighthouses, as well as experiments for the preservation of human life and material objects against destruction by fire[1,2]
Summary
Giovanni Aldini was an Italian physicist interested in propagating Galvanism. With his uncle, Luigi Galvani, he learned techniques of electrical stimulation in humans and helped him to develop them. Giovanni Aldini (Figure 1) was born in Bologna, Italy, on April 10, 1762 and died at age 71 on January 17, 1834.
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