Word: neurologists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before he is through. But hardly anybody thinks that will give Jim any permanent place in the record book. Advances in nutrition, training methods, equipment, medicine and psychology undoubtedly will produce even faster runners than Ryun. The man who started it all, Roger Bannister, now 38 and a London neurologist, believes a 3-min. 30-sec. mile is in the offing. And then? "That depends," says Bannister, "on how long people think it is worth going on trying...
Like his Landsmann, Freud (whom he never met), Dr. Redlich began his professional career as a neurologist, then switched to the social and analytic sides of psychiatry. He says that his approach is "basically Freudian," but of his Yale department he insists: "We are undogmatic, uncommitted to any particular point of view or school of thought. We are at the threshold of a broad new psychiatry that will use the knowledge of many disciplines...
Just about everyone swears on occasion. But some people are cursed with a pathological need to curse-and uncontrollably shout obscenities every few minutes. Accompanied by a violent muscular tic, their singular malady is called the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome for the French neurologist who first described it in 1884. The disease is rare, but its smutty symptoms turn its victims into social pariahs, and sometimes the psychological disorder leads them to mental institutions...
More than half a century ago, the noted American neurologist, Weir Mitchell, chewed some of the mescal buttons of the peyote cactus and reported that he felt "as if the unseen millions of the Milky Way were to flow in a sparkling river before my eyes." He predicted "a perilous reign of the mescal habit when this agent becomes attainable." To some, it seems that the perilous reign has begun-not through Mitchell's bitter buttons but through their enormously more powerful relative, lysergic acid diethylamide...
Subtle Injury. The U.C.L.A. team, with Dr. Charles H. Markham as neurologist and Dr. Paul H. Crandall doing most of the surgery, has now followed 19 patients for two years or more. In three cases, even the deeply implanted electrodes failed to show a decisive focus of abnormal activity on one side, so no surgery was attempted. Of 16 patients who had operations, ten are now free of seizures, and two have improved although they still have occasional seizures. Three got no benefit, and one died from a hemorrhage not connected with the operation...