Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain.

Abstract

Understanding of how the brain functions, to the end that misfunction be corrected, is the most important, and the most neglected, of research adventures today. The present volume establishes a substantial beachhead on this<i>terra incognita</i>. The book is the combined effort of a neurosurgeon, a neurophysiologist, and a neurologist (and their associates) but is especially a crowning climax to the academic career of the senior author. Many reports of studies conducted at the Montreal Neurological Institute have appeared in past decades. Of about 700 references in this book, 12% are from the pen of one of the authors. An earlier volume on the same subject by Penfield and Erickson was published in 1941. In the present volume the material has been appreciably expanded. The eight color plates of the exposed brain were supplied by a pharmaceutical firm. The printing and the binding makes this a handsome volume. Words italicized