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History of Neurology

History of Neurology. Wilder Penfield MD The great Canadian neurosurgeon. Richard J. Barohn, MD Gertrude and Dewey Ziegler Professor of Neurology The University of Kansas Medical Center. Wilder Penfield MD 1891-1976. Born in Spokane, Washington College- Princeton

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History of Neurology

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  1. History of Neurology Wilder Penfield MD The great Canadian neurosurgeon Richard J. Barohn, MD Gertrude and Dewey Ziegler Professor of Neurology The University of Kansas Medical Center

  2. Wilder Penfield MD1891-1976 • Born in Spokane, Washington • College- Princeton • Rhode Scholarship- Oxford • Studied Neuropathology under Sherrington • France WW1-dresser in military hosp • Wounded when ferry (SS Sussex) was torpedoed • Medical School- John Hopkins (1918) • Resident –PBB Harvard, then Oxford (met Osler) • Worked with Pio del Río Hortega on oligos in Spain • Apprenticeship with Cushing in Boston • Faculty- Neurologic Institute, New York • Developed interested in epilepsy surgery • Met Rockefeller • 1928-McGill Univ/Royal Victoria Hosp-1st Neurosurgeon • 1934-1st Dir Montreal Neurologic Institute (est. with Rockefeller funding)

  3. Wilder Penfield MD1891-1976 • 1934- Canadian Citizen • 1943-Fellow Royal Society • 1953-Order of Merit • 1960-Lister Medal, UK • Retired • 1967-Companion of The Order of Canada • In retirement he wrote a novel “The Torch” and a autobiography No Man Alone • 1976- died of abdominal cancer • Founder of clinical neuroscience in Canada • Pioneer of; • Epilepsy surgery • Brain localization of functions by stimulation during surgery

  4. Wilder Penfield MD1891-1976Scientific Accomplishments • “Montreal Procedure” for Epilepsy • Destroyed nerve cells in brain where seizures originated • Brain exposed under local anesthesia • Stimulated cortex, observed exposers • Goal- reduce side effects of surgery • By-product- created maps of sensory & motor cortices • Major contribution to localization • Cortical homunculus • Charted functions of temporal lobes • Stim: recalled dreams, smells, visual, and auditory hallucinations, memory recollections, déjà vu, fear From Speech and Brain Mechanisms

  5. Wilder Penfield MDPublications Epilepsy and Cerebral Localization (1941) Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain (1954) Speech and Brain Mechanisms (1959) .

  6. Wilder Penfield MD • . 1968 1977

  7. Wilder Penfield MDConsciousness and Human Brain • . 1975

  8. Wilder Penfield book in Dr. Barohn’s Library Prospect and Retrospect in Neurology (1955) • .

  9. Montreal Neurological Institute (est. 1934) .

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