Word: hyden
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...marvelous to be made up of mere matter. Yet it obviously consists of some arrangement of molecules in the brain that work collectively to remember and reason. Last week in San Francisco, a score of the world's most eminent scientists of the mind heard Swedish Neurobiologist Holger Hyden (pronounced he-dam), 43, offer a theory about the chemistry of thought. Hyden, who is chief of tissue studies at the University of Goteborg, even named a chemical that dictators might use to disrupt the thought process and enslave the minds of their subjects...
...brain, explained Professor Hyden, contains two main types of cells: neurons and glial cells. The neurons are giant, as cells go, with elaborate systems of filaments connecting them to other neurons. The smaller glial (meaning gluey) cells stick to the neurons like caviar on a canape. Hyden and his colleagues at Goteborg, by exquisitely delicate techniques, have separated neurons from their adherent glial cells and have weighed them in units as small as millionths of a millionth of a gram. By taking fresh, still-living cells from a rabbit's brain, the Hyden team has been able to find...