Word: braine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make last week on the effect of posture on blood distribution. Dr. Laird thought that, although mankind was benefited by acquiring the upright position, there were some disadvantages. In erect man the blood tends to collect in the abdominal pool, which may cause a slight blood deficiency in the brain. Dr. Laird tested, for proficiency in mental arithmetic, six students with their heads a foot lower than their feet. In this position they were 14% more accurate, 7% faster than they were with their heads one foot higher than their feet, presumably because of blood coursing by gravity from...
Regretting their impetuosity, the Cambridge brain battalion again re-entered, but so tardily that only a makeshift team could be formed; and, ignominy unutterable, the escutcheon of the Harvard Chess Club was blotched for the first time with a third place. der, for an experienced team...
...named Charles Lewis. As a matter of routine, County Coroner John Clarence Dingman performed an autopsy. In Supreme Court at New City, N. Y. last week Charles Lewis' father sued Coroner Dingman for $10,000, claiming he had suffered that much mental anguish because his son's brain and spinal cord, which he said the coroner had removed, had not been buried with the rest of his remains...
...Brain Batteries. It has been shown time & again that the cerebral cortex- the part of the brain which can be educated-generates minute electrical currents at some 10-50 microvolts which can be measured with tiny electrodes, amplifiers, potentiometers. Dr. Joannes Gregorius Dusser de Barenne and Warren S. McCulloch of Yale coagulated the cortical tissue in anesthetized monkeys by a few seconds' application of temperatures of 150-175° F. This wiped out the electric currents. By selective coagulation of one or more of the six layers of the cortex, the scientists found that each layer generated...
...fortnight off to master Gothic before studying Old Nordic and Old Saxon. Less ambitious, Marx merely studied Russian, Serbian, Slavic. In one period when he could not work, the scholar read for recreation two volumes on physiology, Kolliker's Histology, Spurzheim's The Anatomy of the Brain and the Nervous System, Schwann & Schleiden's On Cell Matter...