Traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains a highly lethal injury with mortality ranging from 20-50 percent (Bulger et al., 2002; Demetriades et al., 2004; Jiang et al., 2002). Approximately 52,000 patients die from TBI each year (Sosin et al., 1995; Thurman et al., 1999) with approximately 85 percent of the deaths occurring within the first two weeks (Roberts et al., 2004). TBI pharmaceutical trials...

Founder and first director of the Montreal Neurological Institute, Wilder G. Penfield established the "Montreal Procedure" for the surgical treatment of epilepsy, a brain disorder characterized by sudden and recurrent seizures. His revolutionary work is the very foundation of neurological studies. He was celebrated as 'the greatest living Canadian.'

Fourteen cases of simulated paraplegia and tetraplegia encountered amongst 4,800 neurosurgical admissions are described. The classification of such cases is difficult. Use of the term "hysteria" depends on whether the behaviour is judged to be conscious or not, but this can rarely be decided. In most of the patients the paralysis was of relatively short duration and recovered rapidly with simpl...