Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 29--What direction the Arkansas integration crisis would take after five days of Army-enforced calm was the subject of speculation here today. Little Rock was quiet, and tired newsmen took advantage of the morning to sleep, while others attended local churches in hope of finding interesting reactions from the pulpits...
...also separates the study and sleeping rooms from the social room of the student group, so any student can study or sleep undisturbed, despite noise in the common living room...
...women in the cast suffer from rigor mortis; their movements and voices are lifeless, and they read their lines. The play does, however, achieve a consistent dullness, which lets the drowsy theatre-goer sleep without fear of missing a thing...
...schizophrenia marked by delusions of persecution (one of the most difficult forms of the disease) was reported to Zurich by Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, director of Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute. Key to the treatment: "complete depatterning" of the patient's mind through shock therapy and deep sleep. Unlike brainwashing, Psychiatrist Cameron's method does not seek to implant alien ideas in the mind, but rather to break the chain of schizophrenic reactions and leave the mind free to reorganize itself. Granting that the method is "a sharp tool," Cameron considers it justified for the most stubborn...
...Experiment. In Cameron's experiment, each of 26 patients aged 17 to 54 (five men, 21 women) was dosed with chlorpromazine, which increased the sedative effect of barbiturates. By the end of the first week they were sleeping 20 to 22 hours a day. After getting solid food during this week, they were switched to semisolid. They got five units of insulin half an hour before each meal. With the onset of deep sleep, patients were wakened three times a day for meals and toileting. By the tenth day they were put on intensive electroshock treatment-usually one treatment...