Well attestedNamed from the place
Montreal procedure
noun · first attested 1930s
Patients stayed awake and described their own memories as the surgeon probed.
An epilepsy surgery in which an awake patient's cortex is electrically stimulated to map function before tissue is removed.
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Montreal procedure
Wilder Penfield developed the technique at the Montreal Neurological Institute from the 1930s, using local anesthetic so patients could report what each stimulation made them feel or recall. The maps drawn from those reports produced the sensory and motor homunculus still printed in textbooks.
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