Word: schizophrenias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
From monkeys, and eventually from human subjects, Dr. Delgado hopes to find precise spots in the brain where electrical stimulation or destruction can be used as a refined form of surgery, instead of the drastic lobotomy (TIME, May 28, 1951), for victims of schizophrenia. Dr. Delgado and some other researchers have already gone on from animals to men as subjects for studies in deep electro-encephalography...
...schizophrenics, planted electrodes deep in the forebrain of each, and fastened the wire leads to a plastic plate mounted on the skull. In one particular part of the forebrain, Dr. Heath has found what he believes to be abnormal, "spiking" brain waves of a type peculiar to schizophrenia. This is one of the research avenues he is following. He has also found that schizophrenics who seemed hopelessly withdrawn and deranged sometimes show a striking outward improvement after they have carried the electrodes around in their heads for a few weeks and have received an occasional electric tingle. More than that...
...From the Mayo Clinic came a comprehensive report of elaborate investigations there by a distinguished team, one of whose stars is British-born Physiologist Reginald G. Bickford. The Mayo workers have placed electrodes deep in the brains of 13 patients at Rochester (Minn.) State Hospital to study schizophrenia, epilepsy and related seizures and brain tumors, always as a means of deciding exactly what surgery will be best. They have found that the deep brain waves make it possible to locate a tumor more precisely than ever before, and also to spot the damaged region which is causing epilepsy. These...
...Koestler does not stop at divulging the internal forces that molded his character and destiny. He tries--too hard--to discuss the world developments between 1905-31 that led him to embrace Zionism an eventually the "progressive schizophrenia" of Communism. Here the reader's interest flags. I think he sacrificed too much continuity to show how much he was the product of his environment...