Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful motive to do the repetitive exercises that will help him to recover. The older the patient, usually, the less powerful this motive. How much of his improvement over a period of months is due to a partial resumption of function by damaged but not quite dead brain cells, and how much is due to other parts of the brain taking over the lost functions, is not known. The number of detailed differences between individual cases is so nearly infinite, says New York University's Professor Clark Randt, that medical science is turning to computers for the answers...
Like a Pricked Bubble. Even among victims of strokes on the dominant side of the brain, says Psychologist Leonard Diller of New York's Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, there are two drastically different effects, depending on the severity of the brain damage. ''One type," he says, "is like a pricked bubble-after you've pricked it, the bubble isn't there any more. The personality seems to have vanished. The second seems unchanged in basic type, but less efficient...
...crying because you're sad?" The patient replies: "No, I'm not sad." Dr. Diller tells such a patient that when he feels a crying spell coming on, he should grip his wheelchair tightly with his good hand. By some unexplained crossover within the brain, the motor activity of the muscles is often a satisfactory substitute for crying. These crossovers and feedbacks between physical movements and processes that appear to be purely mental are as subtle as they are mysterious. At the Philadelphia Rehabilitation Center, Therapist Glenn J. Doman treats partly paralyzed patients by training them to "capture...
...stroke on the nondominant side of the brain may produce effects even more baffling and variegated than damage on the brain's dominant side. If, as is usually the case, it happens on the right side of the brain in a right-handed patient, his language skills are unimpaired. He can still write; he can reset his wrist watch. After a mild right-side stroke, the patient may have no paralysis, but only what neurologists call "silent impairment"-a vague depression, believed to result from a blunting of sensory awareness, and in judgment of spatial relations. He does...
Only the most severely paralyzing strokes have a physical effect on the patient's sexual powers. But a simple stroke of moderate severity on either side of the brain is almost certain to exert indirect effects. Desire is likely to be reduced because the patient is depressed. This and other emotional disturbances can drastically reduce sexual competence even when there is no obvious physical impairment. And since intercourse causes a dramatic rise in blood pressure, it carries the risk of provoking hemorrhagic strokes in weakened arteries, especially if blood pressure is already high...