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...smiling all the time, dangled the clasps at the end of the electrodes before my eyes. These were little shining steel clips, elongated and toothed, what telephone engineers call 'crocodile' clips. He attached one of them to the lobe of my right ear and the other to a finger on the same side. Suddenly, I leapt in my bonds and shouted with all my might. C- had just sent the first electric charge through my body. A flash of lightning exploded next to my ear and I felt my heart racing. I struggled, screaming, and stiffened myself until...
Built-in Hi-Fi. Examining a woman patient this way in 1931, Dr. Penfield touched part of the left temporal lobe. She began to recall giving birth more than 20 years earlier. When the electrode was applied to the cut surface in the forward part of the temporal lobe during an operation on a 26-year-old secretary, she suddenly remarked: "I hear music." Minutes later, without her knowledge, the electrode was reapplied to the same spot. "I hear music again," she said. She hummed the tune in time with the orchestra that she heard. Later she wrote...
Interpretive Cortex. Dr. Penfield is confident that the temporal lobe areas he has studied are only transmission belts for the electrical impulses that pass through the brain at the time of the original experiences, and that the actual storehouse of the impressions is in a deeper part of the brain. His electric needling sends an impulse to this storehouse that revives the experience. But it does something more: he finds that often, when his patients are stimulated, they have a "feeling about the present situation-an interpretation of the present, but not one that the patient thinks out deliberately...
...Penfield reasons, his stimulations of the temporal lobe are like a process that is common in everyday life: a flashback of past experience, and an almost instantaneous comparison of the present with previous similar experiences. For this area of the brain, to which no function had been assigned, he proposes the term "interpretive cortex." Its discovery, he suggests, is a step toward explaining what Hippocrates called the brain's power to "distinguish the ugly from the beautiful, the bad from the good, the pleasant from the unpleasant...
Surgeon Graham opened Gilmore's chest. What he saw brought him up sharp. The cancer was not, as he had expected, confined to one lobe of the left lung but had its origin in the bronchus (one of the two major branches of the windpipe) supplying air to the entire lung. Graham looked up to Chalfant. "I'm not going to be able to remove the cancer without removing the whole lung," he said through the muffling layers of his mask. "What do you think about...