====== Wilder Penfield ====== This article is a stub. Please help us improve it [{{ :content:wilder_penfield.png?direct&200|Wilder Penfield}}]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.