Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Neurosurgeon Robert W. Rand, but is desirable in cases where ordinary EEGs, made with electrodes placed on the scalp, fail to show clearly the side of the brain in which the misfiring is more pronounced. The deeply implanted electrodes, penetrating the temporal lobe to reach the hippocampus* or even part of the cerebellum, sometimes reveal focal areas of electrical misfiring that surface EEGs have missed entirely. If there is misfiring on only one side, it can usually be detected readily, and relieved by surgical removal of the proper piece of brain tissue. If there is misfiring on both sides, surgeons...
...causes of epilepsy. In most psychomotor cases, the researchers say, the trouble stems from "birth injury," though not the physical damage associated with old-fashioned use of high forceps during a difficult delivery. The injury is far more subtle, often undetectable when it occurs. It results when the brain, or especially sensitive parts of it like the hippocampus, are starved of oxygen or exposed to physiological poisons. Evidence for this, says Dr. Crandall, has been found in scarring of the brain tissues removed in all operations...
...could not be charged because ten is the age of criminal responsibility in Britain. The victim, though, was granted $6,300. > A university student of 19 was strolling in the street with friends when a gang of six youths attacked them. Coshed with a brick, the student suffered severe brain injuries. One assailant was put on probation, the others confined. The victim received $43,624, highest compensation to date...
...disgust: "It seems like 33 of what are supposed to be the best drivers in the world ought to be able to drive down a little straightaway piece of road without running into each other. Everybody has a brake and an accelerator. If one of these drivers had a brain too, this wouldn't have happened...
Claudia gamely portrays a nightclub chorine, sister of a scientific genius who may or may not have been kidnaped by a top-secret U.S. security agency or by a sinister organization linked to "the international black market in brains." As proof of the brain drain, the movie offers more plot. Rock is a society psychologist and boudoir gallant who is afflicted with an obsessional neurosis against long engagements. When he is not carting diamond rings in and out of Tiffany's, he climbs into taxis, trucks and planes and travels, blindfolded, on house calls to a decaying mansion where...