The Brain@McGill Hall of Fame
A tribute to the world class research in neuroscience undertaken at McGill
In front of Grauman鈥檚 Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard, they regularly pour cement to record the hand, foot and occasional hoof print of famous movie stars.
Cement not being appropriate skin care for the hands of neuroscientists, we are proud to introduce more conventional recognition for our research stars 鈥� the Brain@McGill Hall of Fame!
Being a McGill Brain Star is of no monetary value whatsoever but is our way of recognizing outstanding investigative accomplishment.听 Our purpose is to draw attention to the exceptional pioneering work that has been done within the McGill neuro community 鈥� and which continues at a prodigious pace.
To help publicize these achievements, we will post profiles of our 鈥渟tars鈥� on a regular basis.听 Be sure to check out the first, a timely tribute to Ron Melzack of the now-famous gate-control theory of pain.
Selection to the Brain@McGill Hall of Fame is ongoing and we welcome nominations.
Here, in alphabetical order, are the听initial members of the Brain@McGill Hall of Fame:
Albert Aguayo
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Donald Hebb
听 Hypothesis of activity-dependent synaptic plasticity听 听
Kris Krnejevic
Pioneering work in chemical transmission
Heinz Edgar Lehmann
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Frank (Hank) MacIntosh
听 Discovery of choline uptake
Ronald Melzack
听 Hypothesis of the 鈥済ate control鈥� theory of pain听 听
Brenda Milner
听 Hippocampal and parahippocampal mechanisms of memory听 听听听听听
Wilder Penfield
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Juda Hirsch Quastel
听 Pioneering studies in neurochemistry
Theodore Sourkes
听 Dopamine replacement therapy in Parkinson鈥檚 disease
Leonard (Leo) S. Wolfe
Early work on gangliosides and prostaglandins in the CNS
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