Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson
Neurologist and Author

Frank Wilson is a neurologist who has been an internationally respected authority on the neurological basis of skilled hand use for over two decades. He is the author of The Hand: How its use shapes the brain, language, and human culture, published in 1998 by Pantheon books and nominated that year for a Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction. Now retired from clinical and teaching positions at the University of California, San Francisco and at Stanford University School of Medicine, he actively writes, lectures, and consults on a range of issues concerning the relationship of hand use to human cognitive and artistic development, early childhood education, and the clinical evaluation and management of disorders of professional hand use.

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