Word: stressors
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Dates: during 1956-1956
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...Trend to Drugs. There may have been as much heat as light on Surgeon Bailey's operating table, but the trend toward new directions was illustrated by several other speakers who had proposals to make rather than criticisms. Montreal's famed Stressor Hans Selye (TIME, Oct. 9, 1950) flew in to declare his faith that physiological change is related to emotional disturbance. Recent research shows that three classes of hormones can create such varied "psychic" disorders as pathological confusion or excitement, chronic fatigue (neurasthenia), deep depression, psychoses or neuroses during pregnancy, convulsive seizures, paralytic "spells," and even degenerative...