Word: foci
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EPILEPSY, which affects one person out of every 100 is caused by clusters of brain cells, or foci, that discharge electrical impulses paroxysmally. It produces violent seizures resulting in convulsions and unconsciousness, brief staring spells or episodes of uncontrollable rage. Researchers have discovered that most epileptic conditions can be controlled by a drug called Dilantin, which Dr. Frank Morrell, 47, of Chicago's Rush Medical College, believes prevents epileptic discharges from spreading to neighboring neurons...
Brecht is best produced with the simplest of scenery, as the current production illustrates amply. The stage takes on two foci: the massed chorus and the red box which the leaders use as a multi-purpose prop for their scenarios. Three objects make up a sort of backdrop. A sign-board carrying the number and title of the current scene expresses the movement of the play and places each scene in the whole. A map of Mukden and environs locates the action in space. A poster of Lenin indicates the dominating ideology, and shows that the whole dramatic inquest...
...system (which has diffuse interconnections throughout the brain), theorizing that it was somehow connected with mood and behavior. Others found that psychomotor epilepsy-a condition that can result from injury and makes some of its victims violently and uncontrollably aggressive-is often accompanied by the presence of tiny epileptic foci, or small scars, in the temporal lobe. Some doctors concentrated on the amygdala, a small, almond-shaped body whose removal appears to curb aggressive behavior...
Ebert is no stranger to the College: the issue of the expansion of the Affiliated Hospital Center in Roxbury was one of the foci of the 1968 SDS demonstrations...