Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Injected Signals. "The logical extension of electroencephalographic research," said Schafer, "may result in the formation of another hybrid science, biocontrol. The biophysicist has measured and recorded the electrical activity of the central nervous system, and shown that neural [nerve] currents control many of our mental and muscular activities. The electronic-control scientist has taught us that minute electrical signals, properly amplified, may be used for the control of airplanes, guided missiles and machine tools...
...Professional experts argue whether drastic brain surgery (such as lobotomy) is justified in severe mental illness. Two British psychiatrists decided to ask the patients themselves and their relatives. Of 103 patients, 66 were glad to have had the operation, 23 had no opinion, eleven regretted it, and three thought it a great mistake. Among 93 relatives reached, 72 rated the patient better off, ten un changed, eleven thought him worse...
...Researchers in Boston and Chicago re ported that aged patients suffering from mental deterioration, apathy and fatigue could (in two-thirds of the cases) be brought back to greater alertness and more normal social behavior after swigging "ger iatric cocktails" containing L-Glutavite, a combination of vitamins, minerals and monosodium glutamate...
Concludes Critic Thompson: "No one can accuse America of neglecting the physical needs of children. They are washed and bathed, fed balanced diets. But they are not offered the bread that nourishes strong characters or shining minds. The fare produces mental and spiritual rickets...
...jobs of the President make no allowance for failing physical vigor or the slowing up of mental powers," Truman said, "and although I had never had a serious illness in my life, I did not want to take any chances with the welfare of the country by lingering on in office...