Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just in case the thought runs through your fertile brain that I am a frustrated old maid: I am 27 years young, measurements 35-24-35, a redhead, and a mezzo-soprano at the Deutsche Oper. I am considered not to be a prude but to have especially discriminating taste...
Biochemistry deserves more attention than it has been receiving at Harvard. It is the scientific frontier of the sixties--involving research in genetic codes, cancer, and the workings of the brain. If Harvard is to remain a leader in experimental science, it must build up its program of instruction in biochemistry and add more biochemists to the Faculty...
What Color Brain? If there really was an Eloise, she drove off a bridge to her death. If there really was a Rebecca, she either committed suicide by drowning or the sharks ate her. If there was a Lila, she climbed an apple tree and fell to her death. And if there really was a Gus, he was a psychological basket case: "I did relate emotionally. I have no idea what color his brain was ... He had green eyes and a face of shifting flesh, and a name something like Charlie." Or maybe Eloise or Rebecca or Lila...
...blocked the part of the brain which controls speech and then flashed pictures in front of the patients. They said later that they had recognized the objects perfectly but had struggled unsuccessfully to find the correct word...
Penfield also argued that children control the growth of their own brains. "By selecting to what he will attend, the child conditions his own cortex," he said. "As the years pass, the child, with the help of mothers and teachers, may be said to create his own brain mechanisms...