There is a 41-year-old woman, an administrative assistant from California known in the medical literature only as "AJ," who ...

This description of the brain’s complexity appears late in Eric Andrew-Gee’s story of neurosurgeons Wilder Penfield and William Cone. Along with a reference to Emily Dickinson, who said the ...

Wilder Penfield and his partner, William Cone (Photo courtesy of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University; design: Julieta Caballero / iStock) O pening the skull had never ...

occupation or profession" is defined, with lofty idealism, as a call or summons. Wilder Penfield, known primarily to the professional world as a leading neurosurgeon and emeritus ...

Roger Lee Wilder, age 90, of Indian Land, SC, formerly of Penfield, NY passed away peacefully at home on January 6, 2025, surrounded by his loving family. Born in Orchard Park, NY, on May 17 ...

Since then (circa 400 B.C.), says famed Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, a few highly localized parts of the brain have been shown to control vision, hearing, speech, some physical sensations and ...

The Douglas Mental Health University Institute is proud to announce that its researcher and neurobiologist, Michael Meaney, C.M., Ph.D., C.Q., FRSC, is the 2014 laureate of the prestigious prix Wilder ...

A definitive biography of Alan Gregg, written by Wilder Penfield, with his usual painstaking accuracy, has finally appeared, ten years after Alan's death; his story, published by Little ...

This paper discusses a neglected aspect of the historiography of aphasia, the role that Pavlovian conditioning played in Alexander Luria’s and Wilder Penfield’s understanding of the acquisition, ...

The homunculus – meaning little man – is the brainchild of the Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield (1891-1976), who co-founded the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University in 1934 and ...