Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sugar cube laced with the hallucinogenic drug and had to be taken to the hospital, alternately laughing and screaming hysterically. After a stomach pumping and a few days on intravenous feedings, she recovered. Last week she went home, and her doctors are confident that she has suffered no permanent brain damage. Only five years old, Donna was an innocent victim of the dangerous LSD craze (TIME, March 11); she had found the "candy" cube in the refrigerator of her family's Brooklyn apartment, where her 18-year-old uncle said he had stashed it after buying...
Just as the human fetus has long been thought capable of absorbing adequate nourishment even if the mother is starving, so the human brain has been considered able to develop normally even in a starving infant. But this could be an outdated thesis, said researchers at a Boston symposium on mental retardation convened by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. There is a growing body of evidence that mental retardation is sometimes the result of malnutrition, and in the case of premature babies, who by definition have not been nourished up to a normal birth weight, the effects...
...Growing Brain. Though there are countless kinds of malnutrition, the researchers reporting in Boston concentrated on protein-calorie deficiency-an overall shortage of food, including a conspicuous deficit of protein. In Mexico City, reported Dr. Joaquín Cravioto, infants under six months old who had to be hospitalized for this type of malnutrition recovered but then developed much more slowly mentally than older children who suffered from the same condition. Studies in Yugoslavia indicate that such children fail to catch up even seven to 14 years later...
This failure, Dr. Cravioto suggested, may be related to the fact that a baby's brain grows fastest at birth and shortly afterward, gaining weight at the rate of about an ounce every two weeks. Reporting similar findings in laboratory animals, the University of London's Dr. John Dobbing said that underfeeding of newborn rats and pigs interferes with the growth of fatty, myelin sheaths around nerve fibers. And this brain damage cannot be fully repaired by normal feeding in later life...
...Alexander S. Wiener and Philip Levine, whose parallel work in New York City showed that the Rh factor is a major source of blood incompatibility, and that this incompatibility may in turn cause irreversible brain damage (personal awards of $6,250 each...