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Juhn Wada, on the day he received his honorary degree from UBC in 2015, was known for his research into epilepsy and human brain asymmetry, including his description of the Wada test for cerebral hemispheric dominance of language function.Courtesy of the Family Sitting high in the steeply raked amphitheatre of the Montreal Neurological Institute, with a view of the imposing bald pate of its director Wilder Penfield, a young Japanese scientist named Juhn Wada dared to raise his hand. It was 1955, and Dr. Penfield – probably the world’s most famous neurosurgeon – was presenting two patients with severe epilepsy...
