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'''S. T. Narasimhan''' (1913{{dash}}1959) was an Indian [[Electrophysiology|electrophysiologist]]. He started the first [[Electroencephalography]] (EEG) laboratory in India at Madras (now [[Chennai]]) in 1950.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uTTYCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA819|title=History of Neurology|publisher=Elsevier|author=Stanley Finger, Francois Boller, Kenneth L. Tyler|year=2009|pages=819|isbn=978-0-7020-3541-8}}</ref><ref name="Intro">{{cite journal |title=The Madras Institute of Neurology, Madras Medical College, Chennai|journal=[[Neurology India]]|date=20 March 2004|doi=10.4103/0028-3886.170058 |last1=Ramesh|first1=Vengalathurganesan|last2=Bhanu|first2=Kesavamurthy|last3=Jothi|first3=Ranganathan|volume=63|issue=6|pages=940–946|pmid=26588630 |doi-access= free}}</ref> He was best known for collaborative works with neurologists [[Jacob Chandy]], [[Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi]] and [[Baldev Singh (neurologist)|Baldev Singh]] and together they have been credited to be pioneers in development of [[epilepsy]] surgery in India.<ref name="surgery">{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7brLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA134|encyclopedia=Textbook of Epilepsy Surgery|title=Epilepsy surgery in India|publisher=CRS Press|editor-last=Luders|editor-first=Hans O.|last1=Lachhwani|first1=D.K.|last2=Radhakrishnan|first2=K|year=2008|pages=134–135|isbn=978-0-203-09170-8}}</ref> They also helped in establishing the [[Neurological Society of India]] in 1951 at Madras.<ref name="TheHindu">{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindu.com/2001/03/08/stories/13080783.htm|title=Unravelling the brain|work=[[The Hindu]]|date= 8 March 2001|access-date=8 November 2016}}{{dead link|date=April 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

== Life ==
Not much is known about the life of Narasimhan; but Balasubramaniam Ramamurthi's biography ''Uphill All The Way'' gives some details. Narasimhan was born in 1913, and around 1945 he sold his medical practice in India so he could go to the United States of America to further his studies.<ref name="NMJI" />{{rp|360}} He was a General Surgeon and at the [[Neurological Institute of New York]] he trained in neurology and neurosurgery. He returned to India in 1948 and started his private practice setting up a neurosurgical nursing home and EEG laboratory and stayed in the residential areas of [[Kilpauk]], [[Chennai]].<ref name="NMJI"/><ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.neurologyindia.com/article.asp?issn=0028-3886;year=2004;volume=52;issue=1;spage=27;epage=31;aulast=Sridhar|title=Prof. B. Ramamurthi: The legend and his legacy|date=2004|access-date=8 November 2016|author=Sridhar K.|issue=1|journal=Neurology India|volume=52|pages=27–31|pmid=15069235}}</ref>

Dr. Balasubramaniam had set up the Department of Neurosurgery at the [[Government General Hospital, Chennai]] in 1950 and Narasimhan joined him as an honorary assistant surgeon. During the pioneering days, X-rays and EEG were used in diagnosis as angiography was not yet available in India. During the neurosurgical procedures that Balasubramaniam under took, Narasimhan assisted him in EEG service and in later patient care. Narasimhan earned around {{INR|30|1953|about=yes|link=yes}} for each procedure from the then [[Madras State|Government of Madras]].<ref name="NMJI"/> In 1951, Singh, Chandy, Ramamurthi and Narasimhan established the Neurological Society of India and together find credit as pioneers of epilepsy surgery in India.<ref name="surgery"/>

In 1959, Narasimhan became the Honorary Professor of [[Electroencephalography]]. The same year, he died at an early age of 46 at [[Bangalore]] of unknown reasons.<ref name="NMJI">{{cite journal|url=http://archive.nmji.in/archives/Volume-26/Issue-6/10-26-6-Corres-(12-7-14).pdf|last=Nair|first=K. Rajasekharan|journal=National Medical Journal of India|title=Preserving the legacy: The history of Indian neurosciences|date=2013|access-date=8 November 2016|volume=26|issue=6|pages=359–360 |pmid=25074002 }}</ref>

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