Word: neurologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco cigar store, had to have a lot of help from relatives to pay the bills.) It looked as though Billy had cerebral palsy, but recently, at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco, tests showed no damage to Billy's brain. A visiting British neurologist thereupon had a hunch...
...time he finished his experiments with patients in West Virginia mental hospitals last month, Washington Neurologist Walter Freeman had supervised or performed more than 200 of these transor-bital lobotomies (TIME, May 28, 1951) in two weeks. He already had more than 1 ,000 other lobotomies to his credit. Many doctors still doubt the wisdom of Dr. Freeman's surgery. "Lobotomy,"explained one psychiatrist last week, "is an operation of deduction rather than addition." It does irreparable damage to that part of the brain which is believed to control reason and judgment. It should only be used...
Curtain Call. Neurologist Brain refused to try to adjudicate between physical and psychological explanations of mental states. But he could not resist a dig at the extreme Freudians: "You will recall the moving end of Peer Gynt, where Peer finds Solveig . . . and realizes that she is both wife and mother . . . If, as the curtain falls, a psychoanalyst in the seat behind you whispers: 'Oedipus complex!', do you understand the play better or enjoy it more...
...said Spock, it is harder for psychiatrists than ordinary mortals to bring up their children well-though not impossible. ¶ Mental patients who hear "voices" may actually be listening to their own subconscious ideas, which are made audible to them because part of the brain does not work right. Neurologist Walter Freeman and Surgeon Jonathan Williams tried cutting out this part (the amygdaloid nucleus). They found that the surgery freed four patients of "spirit voices." ¶Schizophrenia is 13 times more common among the poor and uneducated than among the educated rich, a Yale team reported. One reason suggested: more...
...Budapest's Rokus Hospital, Staff Neurologist Endre Kubanyis whipped out a two-volume treatise on trigeminal neuralgia, in honor of the leader's birthday...