Word: neuro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide range of psychiatric practices that owe little or nothing to Freud. Psychosurgery, said Bailey, has built a sorry monument of mutilated frontal lobes. "I am frankly appalled by the [aftereffects] of lobotomy and similar operations-abusive and obscene language, uninhibited sexual drive, obnoxious mannerisms, stealing, suggestibility . . . The great neuro-surgical revolution has proved abortive; it has not emptied our state hospitals." Later, "much the same panegyrics attended the spread of the shock gospel as had attended the spread of lobotomy and -in a previous generation-the spread of phrenology." Electric shock is in a way a "punitive" treatment...
...specialist in comparative neuro-physiology, Walsh has been with the University since 1929 and served as chairman of the department of Biological Sciences from...
...placed on the danger list at Cambridge City Hospital, and was under neuro-surgical observation last night. Hospital authorities described his condition as poor...
...Bridges, injured in last Thursday's Dunster-Winthrop House football game, is "doing very well," a doctor on the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital's neuro surgical service said yesterday...
...sign outside of Station Seven said "Neuro-Psychiatrist." I sat down on a rough wooden bench beside some more screens, then someone said "next man" and I walked around the screen and sat down opposite the psychiatrist. He asked me my name, address, and field of concentration, and what I had done the previous summer. Then he checked off some more spaces on the sheet and said "fine, fine." I heard him say "next man" as I moved up to Station Eight...