Abstract
Dr. Theodore Rasmussen was a Canadian neurosurgeon, neurologist, and neuropathologist who primarily specialized in the treatment and histopathology of epilepsy. In addition to his eponym, “Rasmussen syndrome”, a chronic form of encephalitis accompanied by epilepsy, his contributions included the refinement of neurosurgical techniques, thoroughly cataloguing outcomes following surgery for epilepsy, and cortical mapping studies conducted with Dr. Wilder Penfield.
Highlights
Dr Theodore Rasmussen was a Canadian neurosurgeon, neurologist, and neuropathologist who primarily specialized in the treatment and histopathology of epilepsy
In addition to his eponym, ‘‘Rasmussen syndrome’’, a chronic form of encephalitis accompanied by epilepsy, his contributions included the refinement of neurosurgical techniques, thoroughly cataloguing outcomes following surgery for epilepsy, and cortical mapping studies conducted with Dr Wilder Penfield
Between 1936 and 1939, he was a Fellow in Neurology at the innovative Medical Faculty of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, continuing his neurosurgical training between 1939 and 1942 at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) in Canada under the eminent neurosurgeons Wilder Graves Penfield (1891–1976), William Cone (1897–1959) and Arthur Elvidge (1899–1985)
Summary
Abstract Dr Theodore Rasmussen was a Canadian neurosurgeon, neurologist, and neuropathologist who primarily specialized in the treatment and histopathology of epilepsy. Keywords Calgary Á Epilepsy therapy Á Hemispherectomy Á History of medicine Á Montreal Á Theodore Rasmussen Á 20th century
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