Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholar who did hi graduate work at Harvard under Nobel laureate and Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald, Dowling runs a lab of some 15 researchers and is particularly interested in examining the retins of the eye as the "model of the brain...
Felling, who topped the list with $365.93, was followed by Joel Friedman who ran under the name "Fried Brain" and whose campaign generated $297.65, and "Mrs. Pig", whose candidacy was run by three MIT women, and raised $267.54. The contest receipts totaled $1766.17, which will be donated to a diabetes foundation...
...shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Medecine with Harvard's Berry Professor of Neurobiology Dr. David H. Hubel '55 and Dr. Roger Sperry of the California Institute of Technology. The prize followed years of collaboration between Hubel and Wiesel on how the brain processes visual information...
...could just watch a good brain surgeon for a few months," a certain high school teacher was fond of saying, "then I'm sure I could operate just as well as anyone with 13 years experience." Laws prevent such hands-on medical training, but if he tried operating that way anyhow, it's easy to predict his fate. Dozens of contract-waving literary agents would scramble past his shabbily dressed public defense lawyer and one of the first would be the type that signed up James S. Kunen on "The Making of a Criminal Lawyer"--the story of Kunen...
...Mental Patients Liberation Front, the group which staged Saturday's rally, feels electroshock therapy should not be allowed. "It is harmful and should be banned, like heroin," Carol Maddox, a protestor, said. "Electroshock works by destroying brain cells and tissue...