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The Wounded Brain HealedThe Golden Age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934-1984 |
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The history of the Montreal Neurological Institute from its conceptualization and realization through its first fifty years.
In 1934 Wilder Penfield's vision of an establishment dedicated to the relief of sickness and pain and the study of neurology led to the creation of the Montreal Neurological Institute. Setting the standard for neurological research and care for patients disabled by neurological illnesses, Penfield's institute became a beacon of light in a largely unexplored field of medicine.
The Wounded Brain Healed describes the pioneering research that took place during the MNI's first fifty years. During the institute's golden age, Penfield and his colleagues designed the EEG test for the study of epileptic patients, discovered some of the causes of epilepsy, and developed new treatments that have since been adopted worldwide. Additionally, they delineated the sensory and motor representation in the cerebral cortex and localized the major areas of the brain related to speech. The institute also boasts the discoveries of two types of memory - one serving immediate recall, the other long term - as well as the discovery of the localization of short-term memory to the inner structures of the temporal lobe. Physicians and scientists who trained at the MNI went on to establish renowned neurology and neurosurgery departments throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Recounting the story of one of Canada’s greatest contributions to international medical science through archival research, personal interviews, photographs, illustrations, and paintings, The Wounded Brain Healed provides fascinating insight into the institution that had a global and lasting impact.
The Wounded Brain Healed describes the pioneering research that took place during the MNI's first fifty years. During the institute's golden age, Penfield and his colleagues designed the EEG test for the study of epileptic patients, discovered some of the causes of epilepsy, and developed new treatments that have since been adopted worldwide. Additionally, they delineated the sensory and motor representation in the cerebral cortex and localized the major areas of the brain related to speech. The institute also boasts the discoveries of two types of memory - one serving immediate recall, the other long term - as well as the discovery of the localization of short-term memory to the inner structures of the temporal lobe. Physicians and scientists who trained at the MNI went on to establish renowned neurology and neurosurgery departments throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
Recounting the story of one of Canada’s greatest contributions to international medical science through archival research, personal interviews, photographs, illustrations, and paintings, The Wounded Brain Healed provides fascinating insight into the institution that had a global and lasting impact.
Details
648 Pages, 7 x 10
full colour throughout
ISBN 9780773546370
May 2016
Formats: Cloth, eBook
“The strength of the book is the sense it conveys of the MNI as having been a creative home for all of the neurosciences - not just neurosurgery - as a centre for interdisciplinary and bench to bedside research, and as a school for the training of generations of talented neuroscientists who came to staff other institutions in Canada and around the world.” Michael Bliss, University of Toronto
"The Wounded Brain Healed is as much a valuable primary source as it is a wonderful synthetic effort at crafting an institutional history of a hallowed institution. For the historian of neurology and neurosurgery, the volume will make a suitable addition to their professional library-one to which they will often return for ready reference." The Social History of Medicine
"The Wounded Brain Healed is as much a valuable primary source as it is a wonderful synthetic effort at crafting an institutional history of a hallowed institution. For the historian of neurology and neurosurgery, the volume will make a suitable addition to their professional library-one to which they will often return for ready reference." The Social History of Medicine
William Feindel (1918-2014), the third director of the Montreal Neurological Institute, was among the earliest inductees into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame.
Richard Leblanc is a neurosurgeon and physician-scientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University.
Richard Leblanc is a neurosurgeon and physician-scientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and a professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University.
Contents
Contributors / ix
Acknowledgments / xi
Foreword / xiii
Prologue
1 Wilder Penfield: His Journey to Montreal / 3
William Feindel and Elizabeth Maloney
2 Towards a New Venture / 18
William Feindel and Elizabeth Maloney
Part One
The Sub-Department of Neurosurgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital, 1928-1933
3 Otfrid Foerster and the Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy / 29
4 The Royal Victoria Hospital / 40
5 The First Research Program at the Royal Victoria Hospital:
A Vasomotor Mechanism of Focal Epilepsy / 64
Part Two
The First Director, 1934-1959
6 The Founding of the Montreal Neurological Institute / 79
7 The First Year and the Second / 97
8 Elvidge,McNaughton, and Jasper / 114
9 Rumours of War / 129
10 “Cry ‘Havoc’ and let slip the dogs of war” / 144
11 Home Front / 157
12 Life at the Institute / 169
13 Valour / 178
14 The Postwar Period / 193
15 The Cerebral Cortex of Man / 205
16 Incisural Sclerosis / 222
17 Bridging Two Solitudes / 232
18 The New Half-Century / 239
19 The MNI and the National Institutes of Health / 250
20 The McConnellWing / 257
21 William Feindel’s Departure / 270
22 Neuropsychology at the MNI / 279
23 A Tribute toWilliam Cone / 297
24 Melancholia: 4 May 1959 / 302
Part Three
The Second Director, 1960-1972
25 Twenty-Five Years on University Street / 309
26 Theodore Rasmussen / 321
27 Penfield in Russia / 333
28 Penfield in China / 341
29 Red Cerebral Veins / 347
30 Herbert Jasper’s Departure / 360
31 A Rainbow of African Violets / 374
Part Four
The Third Director, 1972-1984
32 A Fair Trial Followed by a Hanging / 389
33 Ars Longa / 400
34 Vita Brevis, 5 April 1976 / 412
35 The Third Foundation / 415
36 The Last Half-Decade / 423
Epilogue: The Boy from Bridgewater / 437
Themes
1 Building the Institute / 441
annmarie adams and william feindel
2 Neurochemistry at the MNI / 459
Hanna M. Pappius
3 Multiple Sclerosis: Care and Research at the MNI / 498
Jack Antel and William Sheremata
4 William Howard Feindel and the Origins of Neurosurgery in Saskatchewan / 506
Martha Riesberry
Appendices
Appendix 1 Japanese Chapter of the MNI, 1955-1984 / 512
Appendix 2 Fellows Day Lecturers, 1957-1984 / 514
Appendix 3 Hughlings Jackson Lecturers, 1935-1984 / 516
Notes / 521
Index / 613
Contributors / ix
Acknowledgments / xi
Foreword / xiii
Prologue
1 Wilder Penfield: His Journey to Montreal / 3
William Feindel and Elizabeth Maloney
2 Towards a New Venture / 18
William Feindel and Elizabeth Maloney
Part One
The Sub-Department of Neurosurgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital, 1928-1933
3 Otfrid Foerster and the Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy / 29
4 The Royal Victoria Hospital / 40
5 The First Research Program at the Royal Victoria Hospital:
A Vasomotor Mechanism of Focal Epilepsy / 64
Part Two
The First Director, 1934-1959
6 The Founding of the Montreal Neurological Institute / 79
7 The First Year and the Second / 97
8 Elvidge,McNaughton, and Jasper / 114
9 Rumours of War / 129
10 “Cry ‘Havoc’ and let slip the dogs of war” / 144
11 Home Front / 157
12 Life at the Institute / 169
13 Valour / 178
14 The Postwar Period / 193
15 The Cerebral Cortex of Man / 205
16 Incisural Sclerosis / 222
17 Bridging Two Solitudes / 232
18 The New Half-Century / 239
19 The MNI and the National Institutes of Health / 250
20 The McConnellWing / 257
21 William Feindel’s Departure / 270
22 Neuropsychology at the MNI / 279
23 A Tribute toWilliam Cone / 297
24 Melancholia: 4 May 1959 / 302
Part Three
The Second Director, 1960-1972
25 Twenty-Five Years on University Street / 309
26 Theodore Rasmussen / 321
27 Penfield in Russia / 333
28 Penfield in China / 341
29 Red Cerebral Veins / 347
30 Herbert Jasper’s Departure / 360
31 A Rainbow of African Violets / 374
Part Four
The Third Director, 1972-1984
32 A Fair Trial Followed by a Hanging / 389
33 Ars Longa / 400
34 Vita Brevis, 5 April 1976 / 412
35 The Third Foundation / 415
36 The Last Half-Decade / 423
Epilogue: The Boy from Bridgewater / 437
Themes
1 Building the Institute / 441
annmarie adams and william feindel
2 Neurochemistry at the MNI / 459
Hanna M. Pappius
3 Multiple Sclerosis: Care and Research at the MNI / 498
Jack Antel and William Sheremata
4 William Howard Feindel and the Origins of Neurosurgery in Saskatchewan / 506
Martha Riesberry
Appendices
Appendix 1 Japanese Chapter of the MNI, 1955-1984 / 512
Appendix 2 Fellows Day Lecturers, 1957-1984 / 514
Appendix 3 Hughlings Jackson Lecturers, 1935-1984 / 516
Notes / 521
Index / 613
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