Montreal Neurological Institute

The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital is an academic medical centre dedicated to neuroscience research, training and clinical care. The Institute is part of McGill University and the Hospital is one of the five teaching hospitals of the McGill University Health Centre, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. They occupy separate sections of the same buildings on McGill's downtown campus next to Molson Stadium. The Institute and Hospital are locally known as "The Neuro." The MNI was founded in 1934 by the neurosurgeon Dr. Wilder Penfield (1891–1976), with a $1.2 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation of New York and the support of the government of Quebec, the city of Montreal, and private donors. In the years since the MNI's...