Books by Wilder Penfield
“No Man Alone recounts Penfield’s steep neuroscientific learning curve before he founded the Montreal Neurologic Institute in 1934 and mapped the cortical homunculus. Penfield completed the final draft just three weeks before his death. Unlike many neuroscientists, he was a dualist, and No Man Alone narrates what he calls his ‘pilgrim’s progress’ of ‘exploration of brain and mind.'” Read more...
The best books on Clinical Neuroscience
Frederick Lepore, Medical Scientist
Interviews where books by Wilder Penfield were recommended
The best books on Clinical Neuroscience, recommended by Frederick Lepore
We still don’t have a complete understanding of the ‘terra incognita’ that is the human brain, says Frederick Lepore—the noted US neurologist and author of Finding Einstein’s Brain—but we’ve made enormous breakthroughs over the past hundred years. Here, he selects five of the best books that detail the development of the strange and delicate study of clinical neuroscience through the eyes of its researchers.
