Word: stressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the patient's age, the orthodox Freudian psychoanalyst would have set him on a couch and invited him to talk on in "free association," especially about his earliest childhood. Purpose: to find either a specific shock related to his giddiness, or some emotional repressed stress...
...China, visited the outlying states of Siberia. He has taken the lead in the Soviet Union's two most pressing problems, housing and agriculture (TIME, Jan. 31). In his speeches during the present heavy stress on anonymous "collective leadership," he frequently uses the first person, unusual among party leaders. He has broken precedent by personally signing decrees of the Central Committee. He has allowed himself to be named as one of a previously unheard-of subcommittee (the others: Zhdanov and Shcherbakov, both deceased, and Bulganin) to direct military policy during World War II. On his 60th birthday (April...
...people make themselves ill" through strain or worry. But it was only in recent years that anyone advanced a coherent theory of why this occurs: applying his "general adaptation syndrome" theory (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950), Montreal's Dr. Hans Selye minutely described how body tissues, adapted to normal stresses, sometimes suffer severe damage because of fatigue, worry or even bad eating habits. Still unanswered was the question of just how individual body cells act under stress. This blind spot stymied the search for remedies...
Their theory: stress sets off a destructive chain reaction among the body cells, with histamine acting as the destructive agent. Each cell is in a membrane envelope, and as long as the membrane is relatively impermeable, the cell functions normally. Under stress, however, the membrane starts to deteriorate. Histamine, which is normally present in a cell but behaves only so long as the cell is healthy, is violently released and stimulated by the cell breakdown. It attacks the disintegrating cell, which swells and bursts, liberating still more histamine to attack neighboring cells. Over long periods of stress, the spreading destruction...
...Eyring and Dougherty's hope for a cure: a "ground substance" (gelatinous matter surrounding blood capillaries and body cells) that the body uses to block less severe histamine assaults. A stronger, man-made drug like it, they hope, may stop the chain reaction, localize cell damage and bring stress-burdened modern man longer life...