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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serious character defects mark what used to be called the "constitutional psychopathic inferior," more recently known simply as the psychopath (and some experts want to change it again to "sociopath") Commonest feature: utter selfishness, in which the victim knows the difference between right and wrong but does not care...
Eventually, Memorial's experts believe, the operation will be useful in no less than 80% of cases of breast cancer, which is the nation's commonest, with 50,000 cases a year...
...Cooper to relieve the uncontrollable tremor of Parkinson's disease. His earlier method (TIME, June 29, 1953), still risky and controversial, was to shut off one of the brain arteries. But many patients over 55 cannot tolerate this drastic technique, and it is among them that Parkinsonism is commonest. Now, Dr. Cooper works a plastic tube into the grey brain ball, injects procaine (which checks the tremor temporarily) to be sure he has reached the right spot, then injects absolute alcohol to do the job permanently. Of the first few cases, more than half have been freed of tremor...
...commonest causes of skin ailments is home medication of assorted cuts, scratches and infections without waiting for a proper medical diagnosis, reported Dr. L. Edward Gaul of Evansville, Ind. Thus misused, practically any medication can cause trouble-and this includes the sulfas, antibiotics, local anesthetics and antihistaminics...
...though often unacknowledged, has been conceded by the late A. A. Brill, leading U.S. Freudian, who called him "the pioneer psychoanalyst in psychiatry." Freud thought that analysis was useful only in the milder forms of emotional illness (neurosis). Jung was among the first to use it to interpret schizophrenia, commonest of the most serious psychoses (which fills 300,000 hospital beds...