"Wilder Penfield was not only a great surgeon and a great scientist, he was an even greater human being." -- Sir George Pickering, Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford University
Wilder Penfield, Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill, revolutionized our understanding of the human brain. With help from collaborators, Penfield refined and extended a daring surgical technique learned from his German mentor, Otfried Foerster. The "Montreal Procedure" allowed patients to remain awake and describe their reactions while the surgeon stimulated different areas of the brain. Penfield applied this procedure to the surgical treatment of epilepsy and used the information gained during many hundreds of brain operations to create functional maps of the cortex (surface) of the brain. He mapped accurately for the first time the cortical areas relating to speech. Penfield also discovered that stimulation of the temporal lobes provoked startlingly vivid recollections - proof of the physical basis of memory. A Rhodes Scholar, Penfield studied and interned at Oxford, Johns Hopkins and other prestigious institutions in the U.S. and England, before returning to America to take up a position at Columbia University and Presbyterian Hospital in 1921. From the beginnings of his career, Penfield was driven to improve the practice of neurosurgery. "Brain surgery is a terrible profession," he said in 1921. "If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I should hate it." Recruited to McGill from New York in 1928, Penfield brought with him a vision: to create an institute where clinicians and scientists from different disciplines would work side-by-side. He convinced the Rockefeller Foundation to endow and fund the construction of Montreal Neurological Institute, which opened in 1934 by its founder and first Director, Wilder Penfield, the same year he became a Canadian citizen. The pioneering clinician and researcher was celebrated nationally and internationally for what the Globe and Mail called his "almost miraculous" achievements, but to his patients and fellow health professionals, he was also known for his deep integrity and humanity. His acquaintance with legendary physician and former McGill professor, Sir William Osler, may have played a role in cultivating Penfield’s holistic view. The neurosurgeon was fascinated not just by the physical workings of the brain, but how they influenced the mind and the personality. "The problem of neurology," he wrote in 1965, "is to understand man himself." Penfield attributed his success to his "tenacity of purpose." Through that tenacity, Penfield broadened our understanding of how the brain works, and in the MNI left a lasting legacy of a centre for neurosciences known internationally.
https://www.mcgill.ca/about/history/penfield
Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgCK2u0RTuY
Monkey King Reborn 2021 Final Epic Fight Full - Eng Sub-Chinese Audio-1080p BluRay DTS HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reOuVyCCeGo
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1118510.Madwand
The Kiss Sara Teasdale Before you kissed me only winds of heaven Had kissed me, and the tenderness of rain— Now you have come, how can I care for kisses Like theirs again? I sought the sea, she sent her winds to meet me, They surged about me singing of the south— I turned my head away to keep still holy Your kiss upon my mouth. And swift sweet rains of shining April weather Found not my lips where living kisses are; I bowed my head lest they put out my glory As rain puts out a star. I am my love's and he is mine forever, Sealed with a seal and safe forevermore— Think you that I could let a beggar enter Where a king stood before?
https://poemanalysis.com/sara-teasdale/the-kiss/?fbclid=IwAR1--rG_-yhQAEilZWEkUrpsbBrANdxYfXR28Yr9hTkAeW6sCef8G9Jhs_8
https://interestingliterature.com/2019/10/10-of-the-best-poems-about-the-soul/
Sherif R. Z. Abdel-Misih, MD and Mark Bloomston, MD*
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4038911/
The Enduring Legacy of Eartha Kitt, a Subversive Icon Targeted by the CIA - so much worse today.
The Enduring Legacy of Eartha Kitt, a Subversive Icon Targeted by the CIA
https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xvqbv/the-enduring-legacy-of-eartha-kitt-a-subversive-icon-targeted-by-the-cia
A Poem on Vulnerability, Authenticity & Letting Ourselves be Seen.
Tomi-Anne Raue https://www.elephantjournal.com/profile/tomi-anne/
https://www.elephantjournal.com/2021/04/i-will-show-you-who-i-am-when-i-feel-safe-wholly-comfortable-poem-tomi-anne-raue/
Too Lag, or not Too Lag Subject Poem Description To Lag, or not to Lag, that is the question. Whether tis nobler in the IP to suffer the pings and packets of untimely slowness, or to take arms against the sea of routers, and by opposing, boot them. To idle, to lag no more. For by lag, to say we end the activity, the connection that doth keep us busy. To idle, to lag… to lag, to say Boot! For I in this boot of idleness what pings may echo must give pause.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVXejOoPECA
https://www.wisdomlib.org/definition/tungi?fbclid=IwAR2-nBdlVN4hfBodHBmKQnEa-8FxBKQn9S7CPp63pHsvCTbKPg-b5fn4n4U
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commando_(1985_film)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conan_(comics)
https://www.6seconds.org/2022/03/13/plutchik-wheel-emotions/
Stevie Nicks & Don Henley - Leather And Lace (Lyrics) - First Song I learned in my life for a spectacular Lady.
Stevie Nicks & Don Henley - Leather And Lace (Lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS4aYkigGEU&list=RDMS4aYkigGEU&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZaJDZsml4&list=RDqhZaJDZsml4&start_radio=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oAkKYrrrPA&list=RD4oAkKYrrrPA&start_radio=1
Andrea Bocelli & Ariana Grande - E Più Ti Penso (Lyrics)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbVUcKkTxEc&list=RDMMsbVUcKkTxEc&start_radio=1
Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTqoGu61IIs&list=RDuTqoGu61IIs&start_radio=1