The Wounded Brain Healed
The Golden Age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934-1993
1st Edition
Published on 4. April 2016
651 pages
978-0-7735-9816-4 (ISBN)
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The history of the Montreal Neurological Institute from its conceptualization and realization through its first fifty years.
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William Feindel | Richard Leblanc
The Wounded Brain Healed
The Golden Age of the Montreal Neurological Institute, 1934-1984
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05/2016
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Leblanc Richard:
Richard Leblanc is a physician-scientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute and professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University.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 physician-scientist at the Montreal Neurological Institute and professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University.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.
Content
- Cover
- The Wounded Brain Healed
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Prologue
- 1 Wilder Penfield: His Journey to Montreal
- 2 Towards a New Venture
- Part One The Sub-Department of Neurosurgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital, 1928-1933
- 3 Otfrid Foerster and the Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy
- 4 The Royal Victoria Hospital
- 5 The First Research Program at the Royal Victoria Hospital: A Vasomotor Mechanism of Focal Epilepsy
- Part Two The First Director, 1934-1959
- 6 The Founding of the Montreal Neurological Institute
- 7 The First Year and the Second
- 8 Elvidge,McNaughton, and Jasper
- 9 Rumours of War
- 10 "Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of war"
- 11 Home Front
- 12 Life at the Institute
- 13 Valour
- 14 The Postwar Period
- 15 The Cerebral Cortex of Man
- 16 Incisural Sclerosis
- 17 Bridging Two Solitudes
- 18 The New Half-Century
- 19 The MNI and the National Institutes of Health
- 20 The McConnell Wing
- 21 William Feindel's Departure
- 22 Neuropsychology at the MNI
- 23 A Tribute toWilliam Cone
- 24 Melancholia: 4 May 1959
- Part Three The Second Director, 1960-1972
- 25 Twenty-Five Years on University Street
- 26 Theodore Rasmussen
- 27 Penfield in Russia
- 28 Penfield in China
- 29 Red Cerebral Veins
- 30 Herbert Jasper's Departure
- 31 A Rainbow of African Violets
- Part Four The Third Director, 1972-1984
- 32 A Fair Trial Followed by a Hanging
- 33 Ars Longa
- 34 Vita Brevis, 5 April 1976
- 35 The Third Foundation
- 36 The Last Half-Decade
- Epilogue: The Boy from Bridgewater
- Themes
- 1 Building the Institute
- 2 Neurochemistry at the MNI
- 3 Multiple Sclerosis: Care and Research at the MNI
- 4 William Howard Feindel and the Origins of Neurosurgery in Saskatchewan
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 Japanese Chapter of the MNI, 1955-1984
- Appendix 2 Fellows Day Lecturers, 1957-1984
- Appendix 3 Hughlings Jackson Lecturers, 1935-1984
- Notes
- Index
