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Convinced that surface brain waves, picked up by electrodes pasted on the scalp and recorded by the electroencephalograph, reveal little of what is happening below, the researchers had been plumbing the deeps with electrodes planted several inches down in the living brain. They hoped thus to learn where the controls are located for reflexes and instincts, emotions and reasoning. From this, they could go on to the diagnosis and treatment of physical disorders in the brain, and eventually, perhaps, to solving the riddle of mental illness, such as schizophrenia...
...scalp," he said after the preliminary question bout was over. He motioned me over to another chair under an enlarged version of a stamp magnifier with a built in light. He flipped a switch and began rummaging with the lens and a sharp wooden stick. Thirty seconds sufficed for a complete diagnosis...
...have what everyone has who loses his hair over a long term period--Sibbores, or dry scalp." It didn't sound very imposing, but he went on building his case. "It's all caused by congestion underneath the follicle layer--he pointed to his overgrown follicle wood. Our treatments will clean out that congestion and revitalize your hair." He walked over to a fluoroscope device on one wall and pressed a button. A translucent projection of amass of blood vessels and a cross section of a solitary, but evidently from his description, healthy hair lit up one wall. Another switch...
Kenya last week was like Dakota Territory in the days of Sitting Bull (floruit 1876). Painted savages chanted bloodcurdling oaths, swooped down on lonely farmsteads to burn and scalp. The white settlers and their wives ate and slept with pistols at their sides; their vigilante posses, using native trackers, were supported by a battalion of British regulars, rushed to Kenya to face the same kind of tribal uprising that the U.S. cavalry crushed in the Old West...
Headstrong. In Painesville, Ohio, William Marut, after wondering for weeks what had hit his head New Year's Eve, finally got around to showing the bump to a doctor, who found a .22 slug embedded in his scalp...