Brenda Milner | TEDxMcGill
Dr. Brenda Milner, a McGill neurology and neurosurgery professor and researcher, is a pioneer in the domain of neuroscience. She leads research on cognitive neuroscience of memory where sophisticated tools such as MRI and PET are used to assess the regions of the brain responsible for languages. She also studies the role of the right hippocampal region in the memory of spatial location of objects. Her expertise and her work have led her to obtain many prestigious prizes, obtain significant grants and be honoured by more than 20 different universities with an Honorary Degree.