The Montreal Neurological Institute

In this centenary year of Wilder Penfield, his contribution to the creation of the Montreal Neurological Institute is reviewed. In the early 1930's, a confluence of favorable circumstances at McGill University and the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, made it possible for Wilder Penfield, with his partner William Cone, to realize his dream of a combined neurological hospital and research institute. Endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation and with initial and ongoing support from community and governments, the Montreal Neurological Institute has continued its exponential growth over the past half-century as a world center for the study and treatment of disorders of the brain and nerves.