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Harvey Cushing: France Military Hospital Surgical Unit Head and World War I United States Army Medical Corps Commissioner.
World Neurosurg
December 2024
Department of Neurosurgery, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York City, NYC, USA.
Background: This historical account reviews the course and lasting impact of Dr. Harvey Cushing (1869-1939) in neurosurgery.
Methods: The writing of this project was sparked by the discovery of original scientific and bibliographical information about Cushing.
Wilder Penfield and Herbert Jasper: Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain.
Can J Neurol Sci
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Division of Pediatric Neurology, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
The Naked Neurosurgeon and the Anatomy of a Complication.
Acta Neurochir Suppl
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Department of Neurosurgery, Institute of Neurosciences, Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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- The paper explores the significant risk of complications faced by neurosurgeons and emphasizes the need for understanding these complications to improve surgical outcomes.
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Ghost cells: Wilder Penfield and the characterization of glia and glial pathology, 1924-1932.
J Hist Neurosci
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Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Wilder Penfield is known for his contributions to the structure-function relationship of the brain and for the surgical treatment of focal epilepsy. Less well known are his contributions to the study of glial cells and his investigation of their role in human neuropathology. Penfield learned the gold and silver methods for staining neurons, glial cells, and their projections from Charles Sherrington and Pío del Río-Hortega.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Pavlovian interpretation of speech and aphasia: Alexander Luria and Wilder Penfield.
Front Psychol
July 2024
Montreal Neurological Institute and McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
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, expression, and loss of spoken and written speech. Luria was born into a bourgeois family in Tzarist Russia and pursued his research on speech and aphasia under the Soviet regime. Luria's work was condemned in the last years of Stalin's rule, but it received international acclaim in the West after Stalin's death.
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