Word: hyden
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Professor Holger Hyden, of the faculty of medicine at the University of Goteborg, Sweden, will deliver a lecture titled "The Biochemical Aspects of Learning and Memory" at 8 p.m. to night in Lowell Lecture Hall Prof Hyden's lecture is the first of four in a series sponsored by the Graduate School of Education on "The Neuro-physiological and Biochemical Bases of Learning...
...with the aid of chemicals and whether memory can be improved. The most affirmative evidence came from Illinois' Abbott Laboratories, where Biochemists Alvin J. Glasky, 32, and Lionel Simon, 31, worked in their spare time on a theory of memory developed by Sweden's Neurobiologist Holger Hyden (TIME, Feb. 10, 1961). According to this theory, memory depends on a process in which molecules of ribonucleic acid (RNA), or possibly subordinate protein molecules, are coded to record a particular event and then become lodged in certain nerve cells...
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...There is now evidence," said Hyden, "to prove that the RNA and enzyme changes are followed by an increased suggestibility in man. A defined change of functionally important substances in the brain could be used for conditioning a whole population." A police state government, he theorizes, could add such substances to tap water and brainwash the whole population at once...
...Hyden's picture of the possibilities was not all dark. Chemical countermeasures to reverse the brainwashing are "not difficult to imagine," he said. And where mental disease can be shown (as a few uncommon forms have been) to result from a metabolic defect, the defect might be remedied by chemical stimulation of the neurons...