Word: cerebellums
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...London; there are a few students, and one white-bearded eccentric called Prophet Dan, who claims he could cure the stricken girl. Dominating the courtroom, just behind the witness stand, is a huge (3 ft. by 5 ft.) diagram of the human brain, with all the parts clearly labeled-cerebellum, brain stem, pons, medulla...
...Frank and Harold Levinson of Downstate Medical Center report in the Journal of Child Psychiatry that primary dyslexia is caused by some as yet unexplained defect in the nerve pathways that connect the inner ear, which helps control balance, with the cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls coordination. The result of this defect, they claim, is a sort of permanent motion sickness that affects a child's balance and scrambles incoming visual signals. In fact, they say, 112 out of 115 New York City children known to have primary dyslexia were tested and found to be afflicted...
...technique for relieving cases of epilepsy that resist treatment by drugs has been devised by Dr. Irving Cooper, 51, of St. Barnabas Hospital in New York. Cooper has found that stimulating the cerebellum electrically apparently increases its inhibitory action on the cerebrum. Cooper has implanted electronic "pacemakers" upon the cerebellums of several epileptics, as well as patients suffering from stroke-caused paralysis, cerebral palsy and from dystonia, a neuromuscular defect in which permanently flexed muscles twist and distort the limbs. The device, which stimulates the cerebellum with low-voltage jolts, has produced relief in most of the 70 cases...
...that surrounds the head of the brain stem and includes such structures as the amygdala, part of the thalamus, hypothalamus and hippocampus, regulates the emotions. The pituitary, which hangs down from the brain stem like an olive from the tree, produces the hormones that influence growth and development. The cerebellum, a fist-sized structure at the rear of the brain that controls movements and coordination, enables man to touch his nose with his finger or throw touchdown passes. But it is the cerebrum that distinguishes man from other animals. Fish have little or no cerebral tissue, nor do birds. Chimpanzees...
Harvard's Richard Sidman, who was the first to apply the reassembly technique to brain cells, is now experimenting with a special variety of laboratory-produced mice called "reelers." A genetically caused "wiring" defect in the cerebellum and cerebral cortex of the reelers' brains impairs their coordination so completely that they stagger like drunks whenever they try to walk. Remarkably, when the brain tissue was taken from fetuses that had just developed the defect, Sidman's cells reorganized themselves in the same curious pattern...