Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...analgesics" (drugs that knock out pain without knocking out the patient) do their work is a mystery, too. Presumably they interfere with the pain messages in the nerves that run from the skin or interior organs through the brain...
Backfield brain Nelson was impressed by the showing of Columbia Saturday. "Like all Lou Little teams, they're good on fundamentals, they're well-drilled, they know what they're doing." But he evinced no despair about Saturday's game, either: "We can beat them...
...brain's most baffling qualities-memory-began to be explained, said Dr. Hoagland, when it was found that many of the brain's neurons are arranged in closed chains. An impulse can move around the chain, "firing" one cell after another. When it gets back to its starting place, it can make the circuit again & again. These circulating impulses, thinks Dr. Hoagland, are the basis of memory...
Waves of Memory. But how does the brain call up these "memories" when it wants them? Neurologists have known for many years, said Dr. Hoagland, that under certain conditions (when a person is awake with his eyes closed) waves of electricity, about ten a second, pass rhythmically over the top of his brain. These "alpha waves" have been used to diagnose various brain conditions, but for a long time no one understood their function. Now, said Dr. Hoagland, many neurologists believe that they are "scanning devices" like the electron beam that scans the image in a television transmission tube...
...subject sits with his eyes closed and thinks, for instance, about a familiar face. An alpha wave sweeps across his brain. In some mysterious way, not yet understood, the wave is able to select the right impulses stored in the memory circuits. Many impulses, representing color, shape, light and shade, blend together into a picture of the remembered person's face...