AJMONE-MARSAN 159positions. Some, among the numerous Associates, are listed, alphabetically,
in Table 1 (see also photos on pages 160 and 161).
Table 1. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Neurological
Diseases and Blindness: Electroencephalography Branch Clinical
and Research Associates (1950s)
Kristof Abraham (Hungary)
D. C. Bienfang
T. Francis Enamoto (Japan)
Paul Gerin (France)
Robert G. Gumnit
John R. Hughes
Darrel V. Lewis
W. R. Lewis
Gordon R. Long
Hideo Matsumoto (Japan)
Arturo Morillo (Colombia)
Bruce L. Ralston
Nelson G. Richards
R. G. Scherman
Charles E. Wells
Lennart Widen (Sweden)
D. L. Winter
Much of the clinical research activity of the EEG Branch was carried
out in close cooperation with the Surgical Neurology Branch, utilizing
the patient material from the main project of surgery of epilepsy. It
had already been stressed by Penfield that the correct localization and
delimitation of the functional epileptogenic process were of critical im
portance in selecting those patients who were the most likely candidates
for this type of treatment. Of equal importance was the assessment and
identification of the site of onset of ictal episodes, commonly indicated
by type and location of aura(s). In an attempt to analyze in greater detail
the development of the entire seizure and its variable patterns of spread,
a systematic investigation was undertaken, first with Bruce L. Ralston, a
young neurosurgeon who was in the very first group of Baldwin’s Clinical