Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dusser de Barenne is known for his contribution to the knowledge of the functions of the central nervous system, and has had a wide practical experience in dealing with mental and nervous diseases. Since 1919 he has been a neurologist at St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht, and Professor of Physiology, in the University of Utrecht. He also has been associated with Sir Charles Sherrington, the great English physiologist...
...education in technical schools and continuation classes for all children over the age of 14. The adequate development of part-time technical education is of first, importance because, if American experience is any guide, many pupils in the full-time schools will in the future have to combine their mental training with a considerable amount of practice in the machine shop, and this they will only be able to do if they have at their disposal technical colleges equipped to receive them for a certain number of hours a week along with pupils attending part-time classes...
...situations, to overcome obstacles that are regarded as insurmountable. Someone defined education as "what remains behind when you have forgotten all that you have learned." What is it that remains behind? It is your ability to think, to diagnose, your creating power, your will, your ability to concentrate, your mental equipment gained from training, study, and experience...
...minutes before it adjourned its midnight session the Nevada Legislature passed Assembly Bill No. 195 which reduced state residence for divorce from six to three months. Last year Judges Bartlett & Moran together granted 2,071 divorces, of which only 700 went to husbands. Grounds and decrees on each: cruelty (mental) 1,268; desertion 388; non-support 376; insanity 284; adultery 54; drunkenness 24; felony conviction 3; impotency 1. Under the U. S. Constitution's faith-and-credit, Nevada divorces are recognized as legal in all states except South Carolina (no divorce law), New Jersey and Massachusetts. The actual court...
...last issue of Der Medizinische Welt, leading German medical journal, Dr. Berger published the results of his experiment. The Elektrenkephalogramm, as Professor Berger called the galvanometer record, showed plainly that the brain produced electricity. Comparison of figures seemed to indicate that electric current decreases as mental activity increases. Dr. Berger distinguished two types of waves, alpha and beta. The alpha waves represented the normal electricity output of an organism when not highly stimulated. The current generated was .2 microvolt. Beta waves represented the brain's electricity production when the subject was stroked by the glass rod, told to figure...