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Penfield, Wilder

The Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield was the first to demonstrate that specific hallucinations could be provoked by electrical stimulation of certain... [Pg.198]

Epilepsy is an abnormal condition in which the normal activity of affected brain regions may be enhanced as well as impaired, and so constitutes an experiment of nature that is the opposite of stroke. Ever since temporal lobe epilepsy came under experimental scrutiny - at the hands of the Montreal neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield and his neurophysiologist colleague Herbert Jasper - it was known that direct electrical stimulation of the human temporal lobe could produce dreamy states not unlike those associated with spontaneous seizures. [Pg.106]

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See also in sourсe #XX -- [ Pg.290 ]



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