Word: cerebrum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heart is wonderful and unusual," says Stoler, who has seen plenty of surgery in his three years as TIME'S medicine writer. "But looking into the brain was eerie. I could not avoid the feeling that by looking into someone else's head and seeing his cerebrum, I was violating the very thing that made that person an individual...
PARKINSON'S DISEASE, which afflicts over a million Americans, could once be relieved only by severing certain nerve pathways deep in the cerebrum. While the operation relieved the tremors and rigidity of the disease, patients could suffer partial paralysis and loss of speech. Now, most Parkinson's victims can be relieved by a drug known as levodihydroxyphenylalanine, or L-dopa. First used successfully by George Cotzias of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, L-dopa provides a classic example of molecular chemistry at work. Normal movement depends in large part upon the action of dopamine, one of the brain...
...same training. As A. Lincoln might have said, "All Freshmen are created equal." And so let's get mad about the whole thing, or, as a College man would put it. "I am quite sure that my mental processes are quite as functional as those emanating from the cerebrum of the night editor...
...written by TIME Cinema Critic Stefan Kanfer-who has had a couple of his own TV and theatrical comedies produced -and edited by Peter Bird Martin. How did Martin and Kanfer feel about their all-women reporting team? Says Kanfer: "The work made its customary demands on the cerebrum, but the optic nerve had an easier time...