Something Hidden - A Portrait of Wilder Penfield

Something Hidden - A Portrait of Wilder Penfield

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0h57min
1981Documentary

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A pioneering Canadian neurosurgeon confronts medical challenges while developing consciousness-preserving brain surgery techniques to treat epilepsy in Montreal.

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Examines the career of Canadian neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, who developed innovative methods of brain surgery that discovered the centers of motor control and sensation. His "Montreal Method," in which the patient remained conscious during surgery, pioneered new treatments for epilepsy.