Word: processesed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hobson says his dual neuron dream model allows him and his research staff to study "dreaming as a state as opposed to dreaming as a story." Hobson's concept allowed the researchers to study the content of dreams not as Sigmund Freud would have psychoanalyzed them, but as physiological processes...
Libel suits are a clumsy, costly and inefficient way of getting at the truth. The defending press can be grateful not to have to pay out the millions of dollars demanded in the Westmoreland and Sharon cases (large awards were becoming fashionable), but it cannot be happy about the prolonged...
By studying neurochemicals, scientists may eventually understand the processes behind such diverse mental phenomena as memory, the placebo effect and acupuncture, Dowling said. He said such work might eventually lead to treatments for Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.
The problems were wrenching because academia and industry are fundamentally incompatible. Academics are concerned with the search for truth, no matter how irrelevant the subject may appear to be. Industry focuses on applied research, on developing a useful product and rushing it to market. Professors depend on openness of communication...
-- Changes occur in the skin. The topmost layer, or epidermis, becomes dry and blemished. The middle layer, or dermis, thins dramatically, making the skin seem translucent, and becomes much less elastic and supportive. These changes, along with loss of fat from the underlying subcutaneous layer, cause the skin to sag...