Word: neurosurgeon
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...great men and husband to the daughter of a world-famous physician. Death is no mystery to him; it is simply a cold, banal fact. Love is the great puzzle, and it keeps turning cancerous in his hands. At the height of his career, Jesse is an important Chicago neurosurgeon. Delivering a learned paper on "Retrograde Amnesia," he notes that in certain brain injuries recent memories are more easily extinguished than distant memories. "Is it a function of the normal brain," he asks, "to hold the present cheaply and to honor only the distant past...
Most observers continue to feel that reining in man's aggressiveness is as important as spurring his intelligence. Harvard Neurosurgeon Vernon Mark advocates a nongenetic approach. "There are basic brain mechanisms that will stop violent behavior, and we are born with them," Mark asserts. To tap those mechanisms, scientists would like to develop an anti-aggression pill (estrogens, or female hormones, have already been used experimentally to inhibit aggressive behavior). Until they do, Mark and two Harvard colleagues?Psychiatrist Frank Ervin and Surgeon William Sweet?are fighting aggression by using surgery to destroy the damaged brain cells that sometimes cause...
...neurosurgeon who saw Frisbie Saturday gave him preliminary permission to resume playing, and final word was due late Tuesday afternoon. The All-Ivy cornerback has a long history of head injuries-in his sophomore year alone, Frisbie was knocked out on three occasions...
...thinking of pain in his own terms. Thus the psychologist views it as a basic, elementary sensation like sight or hearing. To the psychiatrist, it is an affect or emotion, like depression or anxiety; to the analyst, the product of an internal psychic conflict; to the neurologist or neurosurgeon, a pattern of neurophysiological activity. The biologist emphasizes its survival value. The existential philosopher, Frederik J. J. Buytendijk, regards pain as a potentially character-building phenomenon that unites an individual with the rest of humanity in its existential suffering...
...pain exists without letup, says Neurosurgeon Benjamin L. Crue of the City of Hope, the chances are 10 to 1 that it is neurotic or at least psychogenic. "Organic pain doesn't work that way," says Crue. "It comes and goes, with a few exceptions such as some cases of cancer. Nearly all the rest of the pain that patients call 'constant' or 'unremitting' is psychological." This is not to say that such pain is not "real." Most medical authorities now agree with Sternbach, who says: "Excluding the malingerer, who by definition is a deliberate...