Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major step in chemistry and medicine, the synthesis of reserpine, an important drug in the treatment of mental disorders, was announced Saturday by Robert B. Woodward, Morris Loeb professor of Chemistry...
Despite misunderstandings, the impact of Freud's work continues to widen. The development of tranquilizing drugs appears to make psychotherapy for psychotics more possible. Recent creative experiments may lead to a mental "hospital without wall" or a "therapeutic community." Its importance at the University may be illustrated by the fact that at least one student in six will have seen a psychotherapist before the end of the year...
Depriving the human mind of all sensation is the best preparation for brainwashing. Dr. Robert H. Felix, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, recently told the Senate Appropriations Committee about a new mind-purging technique worked out by Dr. John C. Lilly, one of his Institute colleagues...
...part of the brain, reported Baylor University's Physiologist Roger Guillemin. From the hypothalamus, an ancient part of the brain, Guillemin and Baylor colleagues have isolated a highly potent fraction, "hypothalamic D," which puts the pituitary to work when the animal (or human) is faced by physical or mental stress. Also named the "ACTH-hypophysiotropic hormone," it can be injected to give the same results as a shot of ACTH, e.g., in rheumatoid arthritis, by a more natural method. ¶ A series of changes in liver function shortly before and after birth enables the newborn mammal (whether human...
Sigmund Freud held that the nature of man is essentially biological; man is born with certain instinctual drives. Most notable: the drive toward self-gratification. Basic mental energy, or libido, is equated with sexual energy by making the word "sex" stand for all pleasure...