Word: neural
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have not been on a carrier with planes approaching may have seen such a scene in movies. Wolfe's description is better: "As the aircraft comes closer and the carrier heaves on into the waves and the plane's speed does not diminish−one experiences a neural alarm he has never in his wildest fears imagined before: This is not an airplane coming toward me, it's a brick, and it is not gliding, it's falling, a fifty-thousand-pound brick, headed not for a stripe on the deck...
...believe it. How could bravery, say, be transmitted by a gene? Yet Campbell urged an open mind and a study of the recently published, monumental textbook on the subject by Zoologist Edward O. Wilson (Sociobiology: The New Synthesis; 697 pages; Harvard University Press). Said Campbell: genetic mutations modifying neural networks or hormone distributions (and ultimately behavior) could be just as likely as mutations affecting any other feature. He is not, however, convinced...
Verrier said that in future experiments the research team will try to find exactly how the neural mechanism works on the heart and what treatment is effective in preventing heart failure. He said it may be possible to develop drug or psychological therapy to strengthen the heart through the nervous system...