Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judy M. Zarit Coordinator of Geriatric Services Hirsch Community Mental Health Center Culver City, Calif...
...Europe, researchers are finding that by creating the right chemical environment, and in some cases implanting new cells in the brain, damaged nervous systems can be coaxed to regenerate. Even more encouraging is the discovery, so far shown only in animals, that cellular regrowth can restore lost mental functions, and, in addition, improve memory and learning...
...latest achievement in this promising field is the work of Dr. Donald Stein and three colleagues at Clark University in Worcester, Mass. As reported in last week's issue of Science, the group attempted to restore mental functioning in 21 rats whose brains had been damaged by removal of large sections of the frontal cortex. This section of the brain is involved in the learning of complex spatial relationships. Typically, rats sustaining such a severe injury would take 18 days or more to master a maze that required them to alternate right and left turns in the correct order...
...this most heroic of heldentenor roles, which demands both strength and stamina. Although he gave it a game effort, especially in Götterdammerung, Jung put one in mind of Scholar-Critic Ernest Newman's acidulous remark that too often Siegfried gives "the impression of a man whose mental development was arrested at the age of twelve and has been in custody ever since...
...therapist in Japan is a shepherd, prodding straying lambs back toward the flock. Mental health means to live with and for others. To some American observers, it may seem that methods of both child rearing and therapy push people in Japan toward a pathologically dependent role. But, of course, the freewheeling, individualistic American, with a disposable mate and two parents stashed away in Florida, may look a bit odd to the Japanese...