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Cytologists (cell scientists) had known since the early 1900s that some animal cells studied under the microscope contain a little dark spot that others lack. Yet not until 1949 did Canadian Neuro-Anatomist Murray L. Barr realize that the spots, which he was studying in cats' nerve cells, appear only in cells from females. Later research showed that the spots, now known as "Barr bodies" or sex chromatin, consisted of one X chromosome - the one that is inactivated after it has done its job of helping to determine femaleness...
...Jack Paar Program (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Paar's guests include former Vice President Richard Nixon and Neuro-Psychologist John C. Lilly, who does research on dolphins...
What sort of a doctor, we questioned; and what were his reasons for wanting to work in this country? His field (explained Doctor Miller) is neuro-psychiatry, the study of the effects of physical drugs on psychologically disturbed people; and his reasons for wanting to study in the United States (pointed out Satirist Miller) are simple: "the American public has a curious belief--it's a Puritan hangover--that disease is culpable, so you pay exorbitant sums to be cured. And your doctors make a lot of money...
...Minneapolis Tribune relied on its statewide poll to indicate trends, let its readers make their own forecasts. All four Los Angeles papers ran poll results, otherwise avoided getting out on a limb. As for the other New York newspapers, the most remarkable performance was a public display of neuro-journalism by the New York Post (see below). The usually hep New York Daily News pulled an Election-Night boner with the un-Newsworihy headline, HARRIMAN JUMPS AHEAD IN CITY VOTE, at the same hour that the competitive Mirror was proclaiming ROCKY WINS. The Herald Tribune's national political pundit...
...study has been made, for example, of whether infant addicts suffer organic brain damage in their first weeks. Most are placed for adoption, and Dr. Schneck questions whether they are a good risk: "Could the mother's emotional instability which led her to resort to narcotics, foreshadow the neuro-hereditary pattern of her offspring? Or is the infants' ultimate emotional development primarily one of environment?" The problem's social and genetic aspects, concludes Dr. Schneck, need a lot more study...