Angelo Mosso

Angelo Mosso (30 May 1846 – 24 November 1910) was a 19th-century Italian physiologist who invented the first neuroimaging technique, known as 'human circulation balance'.

[1] Mosso began his groundbreaking work by recording the pulsations of the human cortex in patients with skull defects following neurosurgical procedures.

To non-invasively measure the redistribution of blood during emotional and intellectual activity in healthy subjects, Mosso invented the 'human circulation balance'.

[3] In 1882, he co-founded the Archives Italiennes de Biologie with Emery, a journal in which many of his essays were published.

Among his other works are: Mosso was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1897.