Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOCTOR IS SICK, by Anthony Burgess. In this novel about a philologist hospitalized with a brain injury, British Humorist Burgess explores the real meaning lurking behind mere words...
...whose potential for good no one can yet foresee. The NIMH has granted limited amounts of LSD to clinics and research institutes for experimental use in treating such disorders as alcoholism. The new state laws likewise provide for supervised research. But their supporters are convinced that, because of the brain damage and violence that LSD can wreak, society must try to police itself against the drug's unrestrained use. Many psychiatrists agree. Among the examples they cite: an average of twelve LSD "bad trip" victims a month land, out of their minds, in New York's Bellevue Hospital...
...less violent form of the disorder, the so-called psychomotor type, for which drugs do least. For some 50% of psychomotor epileptics, or at least 160,000 Americans, surgery is the only recourse. But in many cases surgeons hesitate to cut out those parts of the brain in which electrical impulses are misfiring and causing all the trouble. For if they cut out too much tissue or cut in the wrong place, they may leave their patient deprived of memory...
Through the Guides. The solution to that problem, suggests a U.C.L.A. research team, is a procedure for precise brain mapping that is as drastic as it is technically delicate. First a bunch of holes are drilled into the patient's skull; metal guides are screwed into place and steel electrodes are jabbed through the guides, as far as two inches into the brain, to make a special kind of electroencephalogram (EEC). The electrodes are left in place for three weeks or so, and repeated EEGs are taken-when the patient is asleep, during a spontaneous seizure, or when...
...eloquent on the possibilities of greater equality: "It'll be okay, but none of this 'ladies first' crap. In other lines, the guys-in-charge snarl at us and smile at them. But now Cliffies will get the same lousy section men we do, and the myth of the brain gap will disappear...