Word: forebrain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Durrell's Alexandrian cycle, Mountolive has vivid imagery (the impact of the desert night is like "the flutter of eyelashes against the mind") and penetrant thought (no such thing as art exists for artists and the public; "it only exists for critics and those who live in the forebrain"). The book also has scenes of ghastly hilarity, as when Mountolive stumbles inadvertently into a brothel of child prostitutes and nearly loses his reason as well as his wallet...
Their composite heads and brains seemed normal. The host chicks were Rhode Island Reds but the grafted tissue came from a black breed and it showed its origin by the growth of black feathers on the top of the head. The upper beak, eyes, ears, forebrain and half of the midbrain were grafted too, but the chicks could see and hear well and seemed to be normally alert. The one that lived 70 days learned to respond to a whistle, which many birds never learn...
...affinity for tumors. An hour later she lay on a cot with her head between two scintillation counters to which scanning mechanisms were attached. Soon, as the counters picked up the gamma rays, the robot pens showed that the arsenic had concentrated in one part of the lower forebrain. This showed that Holly did indeed have a tumor. Another scan showed that it was left of center, and (within a third of an inch) how far. The machine, which Dr. Brownell had helped to work out under an AEC grant, told Dr. Sweet just where to operate. He removed...
...Only in unyielding cases do Payne Whitney psychiatrists resort to the drastic operation of lobotomy (TIME, June 22), in which nerve connections in the forebrain...
...father of psychosurgery in the U.S., Washington Neurologist Walter Freeman bears a heavy burden of responsibility, both medical and moral. With Dr. James Watts, he introduced the drastic operation of lobotomy (cutting nerve connections in the forebrain) to relieve unbearable pain and the severest mental disorders. Now, in the A.M.A. Journal, 16 years and 2,000 lobotomies later, bearded Surgeon Freeman takes a long, hard look backward over the hazards, successes and failures of lobotomy, and notes a sharp distinction between old and new techniques...