Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seat of Memory. Some of the biggest mysteries lie in man's own brain. Dr. Ralph W. Gerard of the University of Illinois College of Medicine asks: "What is memory?", and then gives himself an unsatisfactory answer. No one knows how the brain stores its information. It contains about 10 billion neurons (brain cells), but if they worked like the vacuum tubes of electronic computers, there would not be nearly enough of them to store the information in the average, well-furnished brain...
...theory holds that remembered items are stored in the brain as electrical impulses flowing endlessly around closed circuits of nerve cells. This cannot be true, says Dr. Gerard, because animals whose brains have been chilled to stop all electrical activity can still remember. He believes that the brain has some "static" method of storing memories. Perhaps changes in the synapses (nerve endings) between the neurons build up a pattern of information. Then, when the brain wants a bit of information, it may "scan" the synapses electrically and extract the knowledge it needs...
...with [my lover]," the Sandian heroine Lélia confesses, "I was seized with a strange, delirious hunger which no embrace could satisfy . . . Desire, in my case, was an ardor of the spirit which paralyzed the power of the senses ... a savage ecstasy which took possession of my brain, and became exclusively concentrated there...
...hypertension) and a falling Hooper, was back on television. It was his third attempt to find a niche in a medium which he sneeringly calls "a triumph of equipment over people," a form of entertainment that has doomed the next generation to "eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all." Allen had agreed to put his sagging face, rasping voice and acid wit to work as master of ceremonies of NBC's Judge for Yourself (Tues. 10 p.m.). "I figure this show will take one day of thinking and one day of doing," he said...
F.D.R. "A sick brain...