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Elaborate Technique. At Massachusetts General, Neurosurgeon Vernon H. Mark worked with Psychiatrists Ervin and Thomas P. Hackett to make the operation more precise and predictable. First came refinements of the stereotactic apparatus which plots a point inside the patient's skull in three dimensions. Then an elaborate technique was developed. In stage one, the surgeon drills a small, carefully plotted hole in each side of the skull to permit injection of dye for making detailed brain X rays. After two or three days comes stage two: another hole is drilled higher up in the skull, and the surgeons insert...
...skate, two inches long, caught Defenseman George Congrave on the head. It gouged a jagged hole about the size of a silver dollar in the left side of his skull, above and forward of the ear, and tore out a piece of his brain. In an emergency operation, Neurosurgeon William Lipscomb could do little more than cut away the surrounding damaged brain-so that Congrave lost a total of about ten teaspoonfuls of grey matter-and tie off the severed arteries...
...revolutionized medical thinking when he moved the seat of reason from the heart to the head and wrote: "From the brain, and from the brain only, arise our pleasures, joys, laughter and jests, as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears." Since then (circa 400 B.C.), says famed Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, a few highly localized parts of the brain have been shown to control vision, hearing, speech, some physical sensations and most movements, but by far the greater part of the brain remains unexplored. To fill in one of the blanks on the cerebral map, Dr. Penfield has just...
...this time Fry was ready to join forces with the State University of Iowa's Neurosurgeon Russell Meyers, who had long been convinced that the way to treat Parkinsonism was by destroying nerve bundles in two tiny parts of the brain (one on each side) called the ansa lenticularis. But he found conventional surgery too crude and damaging: it meant putting a knife through healthy tissues to get at the almost inaccessible ansa lenticularis. He saw the same objections to alcohol injections (TIME, March 21, 1955). Dr. Meyers believed that ultrasound might prove sharper and more precise than...
While sari-chasing Roberto Rossellim overstayed his welcome in Bombay, slim, blonde, comely Jennie Ann (Pia) Lindstrom, 18-year-old daughter of Rossejlini's wife, Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, prepared to see her mother for the first time since she was twelve. With her father, Swedish-born Neurosurgeon Peter Lindstrom, she will fly to Stockholm, later travel alone to Paris, where Ingrid is starring in Tea and Sympathy, return to the U.S. in time to start her sophomore year at the University of Colorado. Brushing aside rumors of a cool relationship with Ingrid, Jennie said she expects a "wonderful reunion...