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    Wilder Graves Penfield OM CC CMG FRS (January 26, 1891 – April 5, 1976) was an American-Canadian neurosurgeon. He expanded brain surgery's methods and...
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  • referencing the work of Wilder Penfield. Modern developments toward emotion-modifying devices have been compared to the Penfield mood organ. Voight-Kampff...
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    stimulation and the other dealing with non-erogenous stimulation. Wilder Penfield and his co-investigators Edwin Boldrey and Theodore Rasmussen are considered...
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  • Look up Penfield in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Penfield may refer to: Penfield, Georgia Penfield, Illinois Penfield, New York Penfield Township,...
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    The Prix Wilder-Penfield is an award by the government of Quebec that is part of the Prix du Québec, which "goes to scientists whose research aims fall...
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  • consciousness, Harris suggests that the pioneering work of brain surgeon Wilder Penfield in uncovering the neurological basis of memory could offer complementary...
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  • processing. In the 1930s, Wilder Penfield was conducting a very bizarre operation at the Montreal Neurological Institute. Penfield "pioneered the incorporation...
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  • entrepreneur Smith Newell Penfield (1837–1920), American composer Thomas Penfield Jackson (1937–2013), US District Court Judge Wilder Penfield (1891–1976), Canadian...
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    somatosensory cortex was initially defined from surface stimulation studies of Wilder Penfield, and parallel surface potential studies of Bard, Woolsey, and Marshall...
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  • neurophysiology, Université de Montréal. He did his most important research with Wilder Penfield at McGill University. He was a member of the American Academy of Neurology...
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    just north of Pine Avenue. It was founded in 1934 by neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, who developed the Montreal procedure there for the treatment of epilepsy...
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    institute through the McGill University Faculty of Medicine. In 1929, Dr. Wilder Penfield established the Montreal Neurological Institute adjacent to the hospital...
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  • residency, Feindel was in neurosurgical practice for two years with Wilder Penfield at the Montreal Neurological Institute. In 1955 he founded the Neurosurgical...
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    terminates at McDougall Avenue, to the west. Doctor Penfield Avenue is named after Wilder Penfield (1891–1976), the founder of the Montreal Neurological...
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    hospital was formally opened in September 1972 by Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield. Neurosurgeon Charles Drake achieved international renown for his innovative...
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    politician and future senator Thérèse Casgrain, pioneering neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, painter Arthur Lismer, public health leader Brock Chisholm, former...
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    30 August 2022. Retrieved 4 October 2022. "Wilder Penfield". PBS. Retrieved 7 February 2010. Wilder Penfield was born in Spokane, Washington, and spent...
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    founded in 1966 by Stephen Kuffler. In the process of treating epilepsy, Wilder Penfield produced maps of the location of various functions (motor, sensory...
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    system. It was initially defined from surface stimulation studies of Wilder Penfield, and parallel surface potential studies of Bard, Woolsey, and Marshall...
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  • musician Wilder Medina (born 1981), Colombian footballer Wilder Metcalf (1855–1935), United States Army general and politician Wilder Penfield (1891–1976)...
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  • critical period hypothesis was first proposed by Montreal neurologist Wilder Penfield and co-author Lamar Roberts in their 1959 book Speech and Brain Mechanisms...
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    among the world leaders in the field of life science. William Osler, Wilder Penfield, Donald Hebb, Brenda Milner, and others made significant discoveries...
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    sulcus along the bottom (laterally). This area of cortex, as shown by Wilder Penfield and others, has the pattern of a homunculus. That is, the legs and...
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    Developed Epi-LASIK.) Fidel Pagés (pioneer of epidural anesthesia) Wilder Penfield (neurosurgery) Gholam A. Peyman (inventor of LASIK,) Nikolay Pirogov...
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  • S2CID 37676544. Wilder Penfield redrew the map of the brain — by opening the heads of living patients Kumar, R.; Yeragani, V. K. (2011). "Penfield – A great...
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    production is controlled by the left hemisphere. In a series of studies, Wilder Penfield, among others, probed the brains of both right-handed (generally left-hemisphere...
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    is an invasive procedure. ECoG was pioneered in the early 1950s by Wilder Penfield and Herbert Jasper, neurosurgeons at the Montreal Neurological Institute...
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  • within the human patients, Delgado initially looked to the work of Wilder Penfield, who studied epileptics' brains in the 1930s, as well as earlier animal...
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    McClung and the suffragist movement in Manitoba, and the one about Dr. Wilder Penfield's advances in neuroscience research. History portal Canada portal Bicentennial...
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    the development by the Montreal procedure by Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, which involved use of electrical stimulation among conscious patients...
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