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Psychiatrists would like to have some sure method of telling whether a patient is schizophrenic-and whether treatment is doing him any good. Dr. Robert G. Grenell, at Yale University's department of neuroanatomy, added a new idea to an old gadget, evolved a technique that he hopes will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Little Black Box | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

The presence of electricity in animal brains has been known since 1874; variations in the brain's electrical patterns have been used as a test for epilepsy in human beings since 1929. Dr. Grenell used a microvoltmeter to measure minute amounts of direct current; direct current, he thinks, reflects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Little Black Box | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

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