1995 INDUCTEE Herbert Jasper, MD PhD Brain & Mind, The Early Days - Health Care Pioneers

Herbert Jasper inducted into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame

Pictured L-R: Inductees Charles Leblond MD, Herbert Jasper MD PhD, Michael Smith PhD, Henry Barnett MD, Robert Salter MD at ceremony in London, Ontario

Dr. Jasper joined the Université de Montréal and the newly formed Centre de recherches en sciences neurologiques

As a professor of physiology, he continued his research on epilepsy as well as began to study the neurochemistry of sleep.

The International Brain Research Organization was established

Dr. Jasper was appointed the Executive Director and moved to Paris to for one year to oversee its development.

Over the next two decades, Drs. Jasper and Penfield studied epilepsy and worked to develop functional maps of the human brain

With his incomparable expertise in electrophysiology, Drs. Jasper and Penfield were able to locate the sources of electrical seizures in patients with epilepsy, as well as in patients with brain tumours or injuries.

The EEG Department at MNI opened in January of 1939

Within 15 years, the laboratory was joined by over 100 research fellows. Herbert Jasper also began his study of medicine.

After inviting renowned neurologist Wilder Penfield to visit and lecture at Brown University, Drs. Jasper and Penfield began a life-long collaboration

In 1938, Dr. Penfield invited Dr. Jasper to join the Montreal Neurological Institute to establish MNI’s EEG Department.

While working on his University of Paris thesis, Herbert Jasper set up one of the first clinical electroencephalograph labs at Brown University

In 1935, he published the first American paper on the measurement of electrical activity of the brain.

Earned his first PhD from the University of Iowa in 1931

He then received a Rockefeller Fellowship to study neurology at the University of Paris.