Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bisected worm will contract in the presence of light if the worm has been so conditioned before the operation is performed. In his words, "The mystery was--and still is--how the tails could remember anything. When the flatworm was cut in half, the head portion retained the brain and the bulk of the nervous system... Yet many of the tails showed almost perfect retention of the original training!" In an even more bizarre experiment, conditioned worms were chopped-up and fed to untrained cannibal worms, who subsequently responded to the light stimulus to an impressive degree. McConnell concludes that...
...such important problems as these that the other four articles are addressed. In "The Death of Dualism," Alfred L. Goldberg '63 reminds us that "The admission that mind is a biological phenomenon arising from the operation of the brain and explainable in physical terms hurts our species and personal pride. Yet self-indulgent notions of mind have already suffered many setbacks." He sees no obstacles to a completely mechanistic understanding of thought and action and feels that a descriptive behavioral approach is only useful as long as the response of the organism at the neurological level is not understood...
...most daring, and still somewhat controversial, of Dr. DeBakey's innovations is an operation on arteries leading to the brain; it is done to ease the effects of a stroke and to reduce the likelihood that the patient will have more strokes. Though some strokes are the result of hemorrhaging from burst arteries, the great majority are caused by clot shutdowns where the arteries are inside the skull and inaccessible. But Dr. DeBakey thinks that as many as 20% of the clots occur in the carotid and vertebral arteries, below the floor of the skull, where the surgeon...
...etches a savagely ironic profile of the talkocrats, the people who talk of writing novels and painting pictures, who interminably discuss the problems of home and headline. A theatrical kaleidoscope with film sequences, stills and pop artifacts, Square in the Eye tickles the ribs to stab the brain...
...dinner, and even many of those who take three or four at a noisy cocktail party, know some of the basic facts. Alcohol is a relaxant (it appears to act as a stimulant only because it masks fatigue); and because it relaxes first the "most civilized" functions of the brain, it tends to banish worry. It makes people more tolerant of each other's foibles. It loosens tongues, and may dissolve some legal and moral restraints. But Dr. Chafetz is chary of the widely held belief that men or women do unacceptable things merely because they are under...