Word: braine
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Unlike children afflicted with brain damage, the victims of autism often display tantalizing flashes of intelligence. Some can memorize long, complicated stories with flawless accuracy; many have perfect pitch. Psychiatrists differ widely in their views on the cause of autism, and real cures have been rare. In Washington last week, discussions at the annual meeting of the National Society for Autistic Children indicated that research and treatment are beginning to move along some new paths...
...actually cause harm. A team of physicians backed him up. They testified that the salt could cause hypertension. They reported that flavor-enhancing MSG, which is added to baby foods to please test-tasting parents, produces the headaches and chest pains of "Chinese-restaurant syndrome" in adults and causes brain and eye damage in test animals. The doctors urged that MSG be removed from the Food and Drug Administration's list of "safe drugs...
...enabled him to alter heart rates and rhythms to alleviate irregular heart beats and high blood pressure in cer tain patients. Other researchers are proving-contrary to expert opinion of the past-that man can learn to control even such functions as sweating, blood pressure, intestinal contractions and brain waves...
Though the exploration of autonomic control is still in its infancy, the vistas it opens are staggering. Dr. Joe Kamiya of the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute in San Francisco, who has experimented with conscious regulation of brain waves, looks for ward to the day when man will have "an internal vocabulary, a language he can use to explain more effectively and completely how he feels inside. In time, we should be able to talk fluently about feelings such as brain-wave production, blood pressure...
Kamiya then sets the monitor to sound when the subject's brain waves are in the alpha range of eight to twelve cycles per second. In one test, eight of ten subjects were able to control the tone, emitting or suppressing brain waves as requested. They Were unable to say exactly how they gained such control; they simply wanted to keep receiving the proper feedback from the tone...