Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...human brain is a whole universe, and of all the questions that it can conceive, none is more mysterious or intriguing than precisely how it works. For tracing some of the elusive answers through the intricate corridors of consciousness and perception, three scientists, two American and one Swedish, last week were awarded Nobel Prizes in Medicine. For his pioneering research into the differing functions of the brain's two cerebral hemispheres, Roger Sperry, 68, of the California Institute of Technology, won half of the $181,818 prize. The other half was divided between David Hubel, 55, and Torsten Wiesel...
Sperry's research, carried out over three decades, forms the theoretical basis for much of the modern research into how the brain processes information. Previously it was thought that one hemisphere of the brain was dominant, and the other was a minor one that lacked the capacity for higher mental functions. Working first with test animals, Sperry surgically severed the network of hundreds of millions of nerve fibers connecting the two hemispheres. He discovered that the animals could still perform learned tasks when stimulated solely on one hemisphere, but that the other hemisphere could be taught to perform similar...
...Medical School professors last week won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research on how the brain processes visual information. Dr. David H. Hubel '55, Berry Professor of Neurobiology, and Dr. Torsten N. Wiesel '57, Winthrop Professor of Neurobiology, shared the award with Dr. Roger W. Sperry, a professor at the California Institute of Technology. During nearly 20 years of collaboration, Hubel and Wiesel discovered the method by which the retina transmits information to the brain. The Nobel Assembly cited the scientists' work as a "breakthrough in research into the ability of the brain to interpret the code...
...retains a glamorous remoteness and passivity that doesn't stray far from good American-Eagle values. It's stability and studiness. but DeNiro gets to American from a different angle. He works his way up the spine and into the buzzing, seething mass of semi-methodical madness in the brain. He goes as far into his characters as he can go, always probing for that pure, nuclear core of nonfissionable personality that is at the nexus...
...flagging sexuality with motel trysts. A neighbor, Edie Mulhouse, as big as the hero himself, writes manic mash notes. Bewildered, Reinhart observes, "Women in general had grown assertive, had their own magazines displaying naked men and relating filthy fantasies, took out loans from banks, tried murderers, and performed brain surgery. For ever so long now it would have been simple bad taste to buy a broad a rum-and-Coke, kid her along for a moment or two, and then expect to pry her legs apart immediately thereafter in the back seat of a gas-guzzler...