'Crichton-Browne, seeing the potential that further study in this area [electical stimulation of the cerebral cortex] had for his own school of research, and motivated by the concern that, in those 'regions of psychological enquiry, which are in such close contact with our own field [medical psychology], the work is again being carried on by those who are unconnected with us', thus invited Ferrier back... to conduct more electrical experiments in rooms of the asylum. ' (139)