Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unmistakable. During the Civil War, for example, palpitations were so commonplace that they became known as "soldier's heart." During World War I, the crippling anxiety called shell shock was at first attributed to the vibrations from heavy artillery, which was believed to damage blood vessels in the brain. This theory was abandoned by the time World War II came along, and the problem was renamed battle fatigue. By then the great Harvard physiologist Walter Cannon, along with Selye, had proved that psychological strain itself could cause dramatic hormonal changes and hence physiological symptoms. Selye showed that when...
...essays range from a humorous discourse on the shrinking size of the Hershey bar to the woeful tale of male anglerfish that attach themselves for life to a female of the species and become little more than "a penis with a heart." He tackles such perennial barroom brain twisters as whether the zebra's stripes are white on black or black on white (his answer: the latter). He provides refreshing new studies of some of the founding fathers of geology and paleontology, including Nicolaus Steno, James Hutton and Louis Agassiz. He even takes time out to discourse...
...original movie, Jean Seberg played an American stranger in the strange French landscape. Here, of course, the roles must be reversed. France's Valerie Kaprisky plays the uprooted thrill seeker with the same air of being stunned by the outrageous message her nerve ends are sending to her brain. The major difference between the films is Gere's characterization. Jean-Paul Belmondo played the petty crook as a Bogart clone, sardonic and dour. Gere takes his beat from Jerry Lee Lewis records. He is an instinctive anarchist moving to a wild rock pulse, and such thoughts...
...Kosslyn said he is embarking into another new field, which he calls computational neuropsychology. This subject involves the relation of neurobiology to psychological mental processes Kosslyn said he will travel to Lebanon, N.H., this week to do research on a "split brain" patient a person whose cerebral hemispheres are not connected Kosslyn added he plans to continue research in this field at Harvard...
...investigated a variety of sleep disorders since it opened in September, but has only been fully funded since April 1. It has managed to operate on a "relatively low budget," explains Stakes, because the lab shares facilities with an electroencephalogram (EEG)--brain wave--laboratory which operates during...