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...brain and nervous system. The work of the neuroscientists has already produced an exponential increase in man's understanding of the brain-and a good bit of immediately applicable knowledge as well. It has led to a host of new medical and surgical treatments for such disorders as schizophrenia, depression, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy. It has also resulted in improved and promising new techniques for relieving pain and controlling some forms of violence...
...SCHIZOPHRENIA. Doctors know that two groups of drugs, which include chlorpromazine and haloperidol, are remarkably effective in relieving the thought disorders, hallucinations and extreme withdrawal of schizophrenia, a chronic psychosis that affects one person out of every 100. Both drugs, if administered in excess, can produce symptoms similar to those of Parkinson's disease, a neurological disorder characterized by uncontrollable tremors and lack of coordination. Parkinson's disease is caused by a lack of dopamine, a substance that transmits nerve impulses, in the brain centers that coordinate movement. Biochemical and electrophysiological studies have shown that chlorpromazine and haloperidol...
...true significance of the event. They noted the depraved sentimentality and obsequiousness of newspaper and television coverage. On top of this, they heard the ribald comments of any English friends who happened to be around. They might have decided that the nation was suffering from a mild attack of schizophrenia. Actually, the nation is as united as any nation can ever be-in a gigantic effort to be entertained. That is the essence of the new Britain: the show goes on, but now it is played as farce. We are citizens of the world's first satirical Ruritania...
...answer is a sort of bedtime story on politics, featuring as hero the snail: "It seldom wins, and then by the skin of its teeth. It crawls, it goes into hiding but keeps on, putting down its quickly drying track on the historical landscape. Having lived through the schizophrenia of the 20th century-history as fanaticism and history as paralysis-Grass sees no choice but to endorse a middle philosophy of the crawl, to remain "always on the move," yet slowly, with feeling...
Many Radcliffe (Harvard?) women sense a schizophrenia that follows from our experiences with the non-merger. Technically we were all admitted to Radcliffe: we filed our applications with the Radcliffe admissions office, and our letters of acceptance bore the Radcliffe crest and the signature of a Radcliffe dean...