O pening the skull had never seemed more difficult to Wilder Penfield than it did on that cold December morning in Montreal. Staring at his sister’s shining white scalp, shaved for surgery on ...

Wilder Penfield was born in Spokane, Washington, and spent much of his youth in Hudson, Wisconsin. When he was 13, in 1904, his mother learned of the newly established Rhodes Scholarship.

A brain surgeon explains how children’s brains work and how screen time might have an impact on how young brains develop.

Once a temple of accessible opulence, the 1930s institution hovered above the city as a reminder of the finer things ...

That view dates back to the 1930s, when Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield began mapping the brains of his epilepsy patients by applying electrical currents to areas in the motor cortex.

Wilder Penfield, the trailblazing Canadian-American neurosurgeon, created the homunculus metaphor after mapping areas of the human brain by using direct electrical stimulation in awake patients in ...

Wilder Penfield was born in Spokane, Washington, and spent much of his youth in Hudson, Wisconsin. When he was 13, in 1904, his mother learned of the newly established Rhodes Scholarship. "This is ...