Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Court will hear a report from Dr. Henry Merton Baker on the mental condition of Steyskal. According to Federal prosecutor Gail Mahoney, Baker will testify that Steyskal should not stand trial, being unable to understand the nature of the charges against him or assist in preparing his defense...
...From the mental hospitals, where reserpine and derivatives of chlorpromazine provided one of the century's great breakthroughs in psychiatry (TIME, March 7, 1955), the use of the tranquilizers has spread to masses of mine-run neurotics and other people vexed with problems and pressures. For a time, when most states permitted an unlimited number of refills for tranquilizer prescriptions, Equanil and Miltown (trade names for meprobamate) were the hottest items in many a big-city pharmacy. The situation became so alarming that states are tightening regulations, putting tranquilizers on the same non-refillable prescription basis as barbiturates...
Each year some 120,000 mentally retarded children are born in the U.S., the victims of brain injury, prenatal diseases in the mother, or other causes not fully understood. In all the U.S. there are only about 20 centers, such as the pioneering clinic at Manhattan's Flower-Fifth Avenue hospital, where retarded children may get examinations and expert judgment of their possibilities for mental development. Parents fortunate enough to find such a clinic may use its findings to help them decide whether to keep their child at home (as 95% do) or send him to an institution...
...lived in colder enmity. In F.D.R.'s view. Hoover had become a dragon who was devouring the common man. To Hoover, Roosevelt was at worst an economic madman, at best a mere "featherduster" (the nickname had been devised by kindly friends who considered F.D.R. a mental lightweight, a view then shared by Mr. Justice Holmes and Pundit Walter Lippmann. among others). In the first of four volumes on The Age of Roosevelt, the author of The Age of Jackson now tells how the featherduster became a shining knight who slew the dragon...
These grants to the University were part of a $27.1 million Ford Foundation outlay, in the areas of mental health research and the behavioral sciences; public affairs; and economics and business administration. Another Foundation announcement will shortly describe its international program...