Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moral, if not professional, lapse on the part of the psychiatrist. It is criminal that this boy could have seen a psychiatrist and not have had basic tests done, such as an encephalogram, which could have spotted the cause of his suffering and led to control of his antisocial behavior...
...autopsy showed that Whitman had a pecan-size brain tumor, or astrocytoma, in the hypothalamus region, but Pathologist Coleman de Chenar said that it was "certainly not the cause of the headaches" and "could not have had any influence on his psychic behavior." A number of Dexedrine tablets?stimulants known as "goofballs" ?were found in Whitman's possession, but physicians were not able to detect signs that he had taken any before he died...
...menace of the psychotic killer is the more frightening because he may seem a model citizen until he goes berserk. Many of them "have a feeling that there is a demon within themselves," says Los Angeles Clinical Psychiatrist Martin Grotjahn, "and they try to kill the demon by model behavior." Sensing aggressive impulses that frighten them, adds a Manhattan analyst, "they live the opposite of what they feel. They become gentle, very mild, extremely nice people, and often show a compulsive need to be perfectionistic," which is one reason why people can always be found to describe a murderer...
Biology students and scientists will study animal behavior and the relationship of plants and animals to their environment at the Concord Field Station. This outdoor laboratory will consist of 700 acres in the Estabrook Woods in Concord and a separate tract of 70 acres in Bedford...
Using a camera loaded with ultraviolet-sensitive film, he shot spectrograms of several stars. Because ultraviolet is largely absorbed by the earth's atmosphere, the spectrograms could give astronomers a good look at the stars' composition and behavior and provide added information about their origin. As Gemini-Agena passed into daylight, Collins mounted a plate marked with colored patches of red, yellow, blue and grey, shot a series of test pictures that should help determine how the conditions of space affect color photography...