Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day an equal number packed the same hall to hear the University of Illinois' tart-tongued Neurologist Percival Bailey, a top brain surgeon, dissect the entire psychiatric revolution of the 20th century's first half. Revolutions, Bailey said, "bring change but not necessarily progress." Echoed Cincinnati's Dr. Howard Fabing: "The second half of our century finds us in a swing back to a more orthodox type of medical investigation...
...faith that physiological change is related to emotional disturbance. Recent research shows that three classes of hormones can create such varied "psychic" disorders as pathological confusion or excitement, chronic fatigue (neurasthenia), deep depression, psychoses or neuroses during pregnancy, convulsive seizures, paralytic "spells," and even degenerative conditions of the brain and central nervous system...
...perhaps most significant of the researchers' forays into new territory was reported at a final dinner meeting on "Frontiers of Psychiatric Research" by Tulane University's Psychiatrist Robert G. Heath. A daring researcher, Heath has long sought clues to mental illness by planting electrodes deep in the brains of monkeys and humans, studying their brain waves and also noting their behavior when a weak current is passed through the electrodes (TIME, April 13, 1953). Now Heath and his Tulane team have found a sub stance in the blood of schizophrenics which they can find nowhere else...
...protein enzyme). They injected it into monkeys. The animals "developed a full-blown catatonic picture with waxy flexibility, looked dazed and out of contact, and would stare into distant corners of the room gesticulating and grimacing inappropriately so as to suggest that they might be hallucinating." The monkeys' brain waves became almost identical with those of severely schizophrenic patients. Was this the key to schizophrenia, which keeps more than 300,000 victims locked in state hospitals...
...novelist bent on discrediting a popular idea may choose to 1) give the reader an intellectual hotfoot, i.e., singe his brain with a better idea, 2) tickle his funnybone with satire, 3) clout him over the head with the blunt instrument of anger. British-born Novelist Geoffrey Wagner belongs to the blunt-instrument school. His mallet of malice falls on psychiatry and especially psychoanalysis, its high priests, practices and pretensions. With scarcely a smidgen of saving humor, but with much righteous wrath, The Dispossessed argues that Freud, Jung, Adler, et al. are bloodletters of the psyche whose theories will eventually...