Word: microvolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME, April 19, a statement was made in the article, "Little Black Box," that a microvolt is one-thousandth of a volt...
...join the thousands of others who will inform you that a microvolt is one-millionth of a volt...
...patients from the Fairfield (Conn.) State Hospital by applying his electrodes to five* points on their bodies. He also studied 80 normal people. The difference between the amount of electricity produced by normal people and by schizophrenics was startling. Readings from the schizophrenics were very high, averaging around 65 microvolts (a microvolt is one-thousandth of a volt); normal people never sent the readings higher than about eleven microvolts. As the insane patients improved under treatment, their electrical readings fell closer & closer to normal. But if they stayed sick, their electrical marks stayed high...
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