Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Brain damage is forever, or so doctors once thought, but that longstanding medical axiom is now being proved wrong. In laboratories across the U.S. and Europe, researchers are finding that by creating the right chemical environment, and in some cases implanting new cells in the brain, damaged nervous systems can be coaxed to regenerate. Even more encouraging is the discovery, so far shown only in animals, that cellular regrowth can restore lost mental functions, and, in addition, improve memory and learning...
...latest achievement in this promising field is the work of Dr. Donald Stein and three colleagues at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. As reported in last week's issue of Science, the group attempted to restore mental functioning in 21 rats whose brains had been damaged by removal of large sections of the frontal cortex. This section of the brain is involved in the learning of complex spatial relationships. Typically, rats sustaining such a severe injury would take 18 days or more to master a maze that required them to alternate right and left turns in the correct order...
...past 25 years, the AI laboratories of such institutions as M.I.T., Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon and Scotland's University of Edinburgh have introduced word processing, video games, time sharing, robot control and advanced missile-guidance systems. Lately, AI research has concentrated on building systems that can mimic the brain work of skilled experts in such fields as oil exploration, battlefield command and computer design itself. Now Japan has made it a national goal to take its place within ten years among the world leaders in the emerging knowledge industry. "We no longer need chase the more developed countries," a consortium...
...been strongly influenced by the disruptive fantasies of Norman Mailer and Henry Miller. Oe writes about themes as disparate as nuclear catastrophe (Hiroshima Notes) and brain-damaged children (A Personal Matter) in a manner that Howard Hibbett, Harvard professor of Japanese literature, considers "the most exciting and most imaginative of the postwar novelists...
...life brought on a panic and depression which my grandparent could never have induced and which kept me indoors for several weeks, with little incentive even to wash or eat I had once read somewhere that each newly acquired piece of knowledge etches a fresh wrinkle onto one's brain. With horror, I visualized my cerebrum as smooth as a baby's bottom I had obviously been fooling myself, to believe that I could escape from thinking without effacing my self-respect in the process Once my fit of self-contempt subsided, I took steps to register as a sophomore...