Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fuel. Aboard the Alpha Helix, Biochemist Eberhard Trams of the National Institutes of Health discovered that the brain's control of the pituitary gland was a major factor in the sudden aging of the salmon. As the fish enters fresh water, he found, the pituitary quickly grows to more than twice its normal size, and the central nervous system fails to maintain control. The gland then triggers a metabolic speedup that burns away practically all of the fat in the salmon's body. Biochemist Andrew Benson, associate director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, explains...
...Brantford, Ont., the mark was the identifying surface symptom of a rare and frightening condition called the Sturge-Weber syndrome. The stains are caused by an excessive growth of blood vessels, and those in the skin are matched by others under the scalp and on the surface of the brain. In a few weeks, or at most months, a child with such a mark develops disabling seizures and convulsions. Even if these can be controlled by drugs, the dosage must be so heavy that by the time he is ten or twelve he will be oversedated to the point...
Fluent Prattle. The Brantford doctors sent the baby to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. There, when Michael was 41 months old, Neurosurgeon Bruce Hendrick cut out the entire right half of his brain. Hendrick by now has done 17 such operations, or hemispherectomies. The youngest patient was 26 days old and weighed five pounds...
Michael Wood is now doing well, and will start kindergarten in January. When he is taken to Dr. Hendrick for a checkup, he trots in and prattles as fluently as the average tot of his age. If he still had all his brain, Michael would be paralyzed on his left side, walking lamely if at all, not talking, and suffering daily or more frequent seizures despite drug treatment...
...spot where an arterial abnormality is suspected and see the vessels clearly outlined on the screen of a fluoroscope. It may be possible, said Dr. Hilal, to use the catheter to inject substances to seal off weak spots in ballooned-out arteries, or to inject anti-cancer drugs into brain tumors...