Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...protruding back end of his skate, two inches long, caught Defenseman George Congrave on the head. It gouged a jagged hole about the size of a silver dollar in the left side of his skull, above and forward of the ear, and tore out a piece of his brain. In an emergency operation, Neurosurgeon William Lipscomb could do little more than cut away the surrounding damaged brain-so that Congrave lost a total of about ten teaspoonfuls of grey matter-and tie off the severed arteries...
...trial: $5,000,000 in claims for damages. On the witness stand, a leading French toxicologist explained that Stalinon's death agent was the organic tin compound, which is well known to be chemically unstable and poisonous. Said the witness: "The tin deposits traveled to the brain and caused edema. The expanding brain tissue pressed against the skull and caused unimaginable pain. When trephination was performed, the brain literally mushroomed out of the head...
More Real Than Memory. Dr. Pen-field's conclusion: "There is, hidden away in the brain, a record of the stream of consciousness. It seems to hold the detail of that stream as laid down during each man's waking, conscious hours. Contained in this record are all those things of which the individual was once aware-such details as a man might hope to remember for a few seconds or minutes afterwards, but which are largely lost to voluntary recall after that time...
Interpretive Cortex. Dr. Penfield is confident that the temporal lobe areas he has studied are only transmission belts for the electrical impulses that pass through the brain at the time of the original experiences, and that the actual storehouse of the impressions is in a deeper part of the brain. His electric needling sends an impulse to this storehouse that revives the experience. But it does something more: he finds that often, when his patients are stimulated, they have a "feeling about the present situation-an interpretation of the present, but not one that the patient thinks out deliberately...
...Penfield reasons, his stimulations of the temporal lobe are like a process that is common in everyday life: a flashback of past experience, and an almost instantaneous comparison of the present with previous similar experiences. For this area of the brain, to which no function had been assigned, he proposes the term "interpretive cortex." Its discovery, he suggests, is a step toward explaining what Hippocrates called the brain's power to "distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant...