Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Karandas, turning on Kirkland Street, managed to get another look at his pursuer. As he swung onto Divinity Avenue, he contemplated an attack. Words of wrath formed themselves in his overheated brain, and his pace began to slacken. His unusual exertions were catching up with him--and so was Biff Bundie. On the steps of the Biology Building, Karandas finally ground to a halt. Magnificently he turned to face the young policeman. "I do not know who you are, sir," Karandas wheezed in a high-pitched whine quite foreign to his normally well-modulated tones, "but I must tell...
...Buchanan led the Crimson golfers for the 34-hole round with 77.74--151. Captain Dimple Campen shot 33.77--100 and Brain McGuinn followed with 34.78--162. None of their other teammates broke...
Robie's technique is based on time-tested therapy in which patients take daily tablets of "psychic energizer" drugs known to chemists as monoamine oxidase inhibitors. The theory is that in the brains of people suffering from severe depression, the enzyme monoamine oxidase breaks down too much of a group of mysterious brain chemicals called amines, in particular, one known as serotonin. The energizers (there are several on the prescription list, under such trade names as Marplan, Nardil, Niamid, Parnate) are supposed to block the enzyme and thus allow the serotonin to fulfill its normal function...
...trouble is, not all depressed patients respond as well as psychiatrists think they should. It has been suggested that the failures result from an initial shortage of serotonin, and that along with doses of psychic energizers, the thing to do is to supply the brain's metabolic factory with another chemical, 5-HTP, from which it can manufacture more serotonin. This two-drug treatment seemed to work in some cases, but still not as well as expected. Evidently, the reasoning ran, the 5-HTP was not being utilized efficiently...
...Wonderful Why. Science has gone far toward delineating the probable nature of the universe. It has even pried into the mechanism by which the human brain thinks. But beyond this, says Bush, science cannot go. It offers no proof, "it does not even produce evidence," on the two vital realities of man's being, his free will and his consciousness. Thus those "who follow science blindly come to a barrier beyond which they cannot see." They end "where they began, except that the framework, the background, against which they ponder is far more elaborate, far more probable than...