Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, some physicians have suspected that schizophrenia is associated with a biochemical imbalance in the brain, but the nature of the imbalance eluded them. Last week, at the Boston psychiatry meeting, two researchers reported on recent studies that may provide new clues to some of the substances involved in the bizarre symptoms of the disease...
That Congress misunderstands the campaign is not at all surprising. Congress has always had a Neanderthal brain in matters of social change. But the campaign is lacking in popular support also. The liberal money that normally backs adventures like this one is going to Kennedy and McCarthy; an election year is a bad time for a Poor People's Campaign...
...inability, for the life of him, to remember the name of the fellow he met at lunch yesterday. Sweden's Dr. Hydén felt that the creation of protein (as in pigeons, rats and goldfish) is essential to man's formation of long-term memories. Human brain cells, said Hydén, seldom divide and replace themselves as do most other cells in the body. The neurons that a child has at six years must last him a lifetime. As he ages, some of them become damaged or die, so the brain's output...
...brain's RNA and protein production are originally determined by deoxyribonucleic acid (the DNA of Biochemist James Watson's bestselling The Double Helix) that is established in the embryo by the sex cells at the time of conception. There is evidence, said Hydén, that the DNA in an old animal differs from that in a young one-and the same is true, presumably, in man. Here, Hydén opened the door a chink for a glimpse into an admittedly farout future. If a reasonably pure extract of brain DNA is injected into some animals...
...Named for the doctor who accidentally helped to open the door to research in brain chemistry in 1928 by discovering that overdoses of insulin can drastically alter the course of some mental illnesses...