Word: brained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest pictures of the human brain come in electric blues and glowing yellows. They are produced by the PET scanner, one of a series of machines that are helping make diagnosis less of an art and more of a science. The PET scanner looks rather like a sophisticated airplane engine, with a hollow core. It is a cousin of the CAT scanner that nearly a decade ago wedded the technique of X rays with computer technology to give cross-sectional views of internal body structures, not just bones but soft tissues as well. But scanning by CAT (for computerized axial...
...studies, an individual either inhales or is injected with a biochemical, for example glucose, which is the brain's main source of energy, tagged with a telltale radioactive substance that emits positively charged particles. These positrons, when they combine with negatively charged electrons normally found in the body's cells, emit gamma rays that can be detected by a scanning device. Collected and translated into color-coded images, the resulting patterns indicate the intensity of metabolic activity. Because the radioactive substances are so short-lived, anyone undergoing a PET scan is exposed to very little radiation...
...cost of faculty housing causes a brain drain in California...
Until the University of California, with its many campuses, comes up with cheaper housing, it is likely to suffer a continuing brain drain. Donald Weber left behind a potentially higher salary and a chance to help direct a new and growing American Studies program. But at Mount Holyoke, he and his family have moved into "an old, beautiful house across the street from the campus." It has eight rooms, big shade trees-and rents for $275 a month...
...been thorough in her daughter's case. From a nursing manual, she learned that when there is evidence of severe pressure inside the skull, a lumbar puncture is usually performed only as a last-ditch diagnostic test because it can result in a portion of the brain's being pushed down into the spine, possibly causing death. According to the manual, a brain scan should be performed first...