Patrick David Wall

Patrick David Pat Wall was a leading British neuroscientist described as the worlds leading expert on pain and best known for the gate control theory of pain.

Wall was born in Nottingham onApril 1925 to Thomas Wall, the director of education for Middlesex, and his wife Ruth Cresswell. He was educated at St Pauls School in London. He matriculated to Oxford University, studying medicine at Christ Church, where he became interested in pain. He published his first two papers, in the prominent science journals Brain and Nature, at the age of 21. While at Oxford he had also helped found the British Medical Students Journal, partially to help campaign for the introduction of the NHS. He graduated in 1948, by which time he had published three papers in prominent science journals. After graduating, he spent a short time treating holocaust survivors and refugees in mainland Europe, and then moved to the United States where he took up a position as an instructor at the Yale School of Medicine investigating the use of lobotomies as a method of controlling depression.

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