Wilder Penfield Quotes

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My plea to educators and parents is that they should give some thought to the nature of the brain of a child, for the brain is a living mechanism, not a machine. In case of breakdown, it can substitute one of its parts for the function of another. But it has its limitations. It is subject to inexorable change with the passage of time.

Wilder Penfield

Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that no one picks goes to seed.

Wilder Penfield

Although the content of consciousness depends in large measure on neuronal activity, awareness itself does not.To me, it seems more and more reasonable to suggest that the mind may be a distinct and different essence.

Wilder Penfield

I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach the mystery of the mind...

Wilder Penfield

Wilder Penfield

Wilder Penfield

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Born: January 26, 1891

Died: April 5, 1976 (aged 85)

Bio: Wilder Graves Penfield was a pioneering neurosurgeon once dubbed "the greatest living Canadian". He expanded brain surgery's methods and techniques, including mapping the functions of various regions of the brain such as the cortical homunculus.

Known for:

The mystery of the mind (1975)
Speech and brain-mechanisms (1959)
No Man Alone: A Surgeons Life
The Excitable Cortex in Conscious Man (1958)

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