Word: cerebrum
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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...
...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...
...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, man's closest animal relatives, have larger cerebrums than most other primates, but man's is the largest...
...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...