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Brainstorms. Many unusual forms of epilepsy are often passed by unnoticed, believes Dr. Richard Max Brickner. Remarkable is the case of "D," a 77-year-old college professor, who, when he opened his eyes in the morning, was often assailed by a violent hurricane of fantastic, guilty and obscene thoughts. Although he would try with all his might, D would be unable to get a sane thought in edgewise." Sometimes within half an hour, often within a day, his brainstorms would abate, leaving him depressed but self controlled. Strangely enough, he had no convulsive movements, would lie passively...
Does any TIME reader contend that Drs. Penfield, Peet, Brickner or Adson is not handsome? A standing joke among U. S. physicians is the inexplicable fact that most U. S. brain surgeons are notably good looking...
...operations which Drs. Brickner, Peet and Penneld described in London last week are evidences of a growing emphasis among doctors. Where physicians cannot cure with drugs, psychiatrists with suggestions, manipulators with physical therapy, surgeons with excisions, nerve specialists are daring to meddle by disconnecting parts of the body's signal system. Along this line is the work of the Mayo Clinic's handsome senior brain surgeon. Dr. Alfred Washington Adson. Dr. Adson told the London Congress the technique, which he worked out with a Mayo associate, Dr. George Elgie Brown, of stopping Raynaud's Disease. This...
Handsome Dr. Richard Max Brickner of Manhattan took out both frontal lobes of a man's tumorous brain, a unique case, said he. Together with the excised pieces of his brain the patient lost his memory and, reported Dr. Brickner, "control over his emotional drives, presumably because he had lost the knowledge that there was a social gain in such control. In this respect, he was like a child who has not yet learned that there is a world in which it is necessary to meet people and situations and become adapted to them...
Deafness has mental effects which psychiatrists have hardly investigated. Dr. Ruth Brickner of the Child Study Association made an attempt. The person born deaf has his "psychological equilibrium fairly stable from the beginning except that its centre of gravity is determined by forces somewhat different from those of the hearing man." But the deaf person who for years could hear, endures a "psychological amputation." Emotional maladjustment develops, in two typical clinical pictures. The victim becomes depressed or he becomes suspicious. Both types result from primitive rage and hatred in the unconscious mind?in one case by rage and hatred...