Word: mental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Medical School and instructor in the Medical School and in recent years has been an assistant professor of psychology there. From 1925 to 1928 he was a member of the National Research Council in the division of anthropology and psychology. As a member of the National Committee of Mental Hygiene he has been chiefly interested in clinical psychometrics and mental hygiene...
...psychiatrist, Donald Wilson Hastings, secured his M.D. at Wisconsin University in 1934 While his specialized training came from the Penn. Hospital for mental and Nervous Diseases and the Institute of the Penn, Hospital. In addition he was an instructor in psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania...
...turned a deaf ear to the throaty gurgles of Guardian editors catching their first sight of hard cash in over a year and lapsed again into reverie, permitting a mental tear to soften his brain. Oh, to be a Freshman one more. To have four years of certain free summers ahead. To be free from having to think of something to be. Vag experienced slight nausea at his own nostalgia, and his thoughts swung to what courses he might sit in on this year. There was always Merriman's first lecture, a phenomenon in itself. There would be Holcombe...
Curious about the mental effects of short-wave radiation, Dr. Hughbert Clayton Hamilton of Philadelphia's Temple University tried heating rats. Last week he described his experiment to the American Psychological Association meeting at Columbus, Ohio. He divided the rats into two groups of 21 each, sent each group through a U-shaped maze once a day for 100 days. Every animal in the first group was subjected to short-wave radiation for two minutes, before each of the first 45 trials. Then temperatures were raised from 99.5 to 103 or 104.5° F. No radiation was given this...
...could offer no explanation for the increased intelligence and lost tails of the irradiated group other than the fact that radiation stimulates circulation of the blood, sends more fresh blood through the brain and body. Whether increased intelligence might be obtained in humans he did not dare conjecture. Only mental result of artificial fever noticed so far is that the patient's outstanding personality characteristics are exaggerated after treatment...