Draft:Josephine Semmes
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Comment: Findagrave is not a reliable source because it is user edited. Theroadislong (talk) 17:36, 3 August 2024 (UTC)
Josephine Semmes (1916-1998)[1] was an American neuropsychologist. She co-developed a tactile sensitivity test, the Semmes-Weinstein monofilament test, that later was widely used by clinicians for tracking the course of diseases including leprosy and diabetic neuropathy. She also developed a pioneering hypothesis about differences between the right and left hemispheres of the brain.
Career
Semmes studied at Queens Square in London[2] and received a fellowship in psychology at New York University.[3] While she was working at Bellevue Hospital, Sidney Weinstein, who was also working there on his doctoral research in neuroscience, persuaded her that a two-point device for detecting touch sensitivity that she had brought to the lab, could be improved.[2] Together they carried out the long, involved procedure of calibrating nylon microfilaments using a chemical balance.[2]. They used these microfilaments to create a new tactile sensitivity test they called "the pressure test".[2]. The new testing device they made was a particular type of esthesiometer (a device for measuring tactile sensitivity), later known as the Semmes-Weinstein Aesthesiometer, which used these calibrated monofilaments. These Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments came into wide use in various configurations for different applications.[4] In May 1992, Weinstein traveled to Carville, Louisiana, to the Laboratory Research Branch of the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center, to reminisce about the history of this invention. He received a plaque from the leprosy researchers there commemorating the "gift to the world" of the Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments.[2]
After leaving Bellevue Hospital, Semmes went to the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland to study cortical functioning in monkeys.[2] She developed a pioneering hypothesis about hemispheric lateralization that influenced many later theoretical efforts.[5]
TODO: Expand the summary of the Tucker passage, and create a list of Semmes's selected articles including the hemispheric lateralization paper. Add citations about leprosy and diabetic neuropathy in the lead.
Personal Life
Semmes married the neuroscientist Edward Evarts[3] and took the name Josephine Semmes Evarts[1].
References
- ^ a b Acorn, Mary. "Mary Porter Evarts". Find a Grave. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ a b c d e f Weinstein, Sidney (January–March 1993). "Fifty Years of Somatosensory Research: From the Semmes-Weinstein Monofilaments to the Weinstein Enhanced Sensory Test". Journal of Hand Therapy. 6 (1): 11–22. PMID 8343870. Retrieved 3 August 2024.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ a b Ferreras, Ingrid (January 18, 2002). "Dr. Robert A. Cohen Oral History 2002 A". NIH Oral Histories. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
- ^ Bell-Krotoski, Judith A.; Fess, Elaine Ewing; Figarola, John H.; Hiltz, Danell (April–June 1995). "Threshold Detection and Semmes-Weinstein Monofilaments". Journal of Hand Therapy. 8 (2): 155–162. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: date format (link) - ^ Tucker, Don M. (June 25, 2007). Mind From Body: Experience From Neural Structure. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 50–52.
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