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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1957)
10-(Sc 1) Shtamtn, SalprryOrr?., Smw Jul 11, S7 Drugs Cut Restless Activity Br STANLEY MEISLER KEW ORLEANS. July JO J Th man m restkms. He wouldn't til dill. He would sit down, jump up again and pact around He moved too much and too last The doctors, charged with his cart, noted the similarities be tweea ho behavior and the rest lessness of a Rhesus monkey named Alex. Alex paced back anil forth in his cage at a rapid rate. Often he would stop, leap at the bam and then return to his pac ing Both the man and the apt eeemingly caught on a mental treadmill, were the victims of bran damage What can be done Uv them is the subject of some unique experiments at the Louis iana State I'meersity Medical School, where doctors are probing the mysteries of the brain. Dr George P Davis, piercing the brains of monke s itn surgi cal needles is finding clues to reg. '10.95 acrilan filled comforters reg. $8.95 nylon blend blanket reg. 69c lippered pillow covers reg.. 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All UDli frO one of the great unknowns w the human body the three-pound, graoefruit-siied 10-biUion-celled brain Dr Davis first task was to dis cover exactly hat part of the brain controls restlessness or too much body activity Brail Divided Scientists haw believed that the cortex or outer layer of the brain took care of most of our con Si ions work The back of the cor tex controlled vision, the left side made us talk the top helped us feel things The front was the ren ter of body motion But the experiments of Dr Dav is cas doubt on the function of the front cortex The scientist opened the skulls f Rhesus monkeys. Instead of damaging the cortexes. he pieroed them without harm and destroyed deep areas msidt the front of the brain Thea he put the monkeys ii Special cages The cage vert quipped with electric eyes that signal aa automatic r t c r d t r whenever the monkey pact the cage or leap upoa th ban. A normal monkey might pact a tage N times during aa hour and leap upon the bars times with in thit time But i monkey with l damaged inner brain pace tome tot times an hour and leaps 19t times And the bran damaged monkey keep up the pace Except for sleeping; time. Alex, lor etampit, las paced aad leaped far to much every day sine hit opera tion over ll month ago The results prove that restlesa aeai cai e caused by damaging the hwdt f th brain without hurting th frontal enrtax What It the significance? The answw I simple I ntil maa leant what every part of the brain doe, b cannot us sur gery It curt mental illness Rebef from restlessness today it limited ta chemical tools Part f Dr. Davis' experiment utilise one of the current popular aid, the tranquiliung drugs His monkey cage are Ideal ta sneasur on effect of th drug Psychiatrists in mesial hospitals discover that their patient, in a general way. (eel easier after taking drugs But. with monkeys. Dr Davis has found exactly how much pacing and leaping an hour the drug can rut IssfttCfttzOGBeflG Call His tests show the lamous drugs reserpine and rhlorprwrnaxsn re duce restlessness almost t norm al Mor surprising were the results from injections of amphetamine or benzedrine and phenidylate Al though classed exciting drugs these also reduced restlessness And the animal remained alert. Hit in I dull stupor When both tranquilmng and ei ettmg druas were inwcted tngeth er Dr Dsns watching the am malt by a special television ra mera found that the monkevs while no longer restless would he more alert than if the had been injected nnly with a tranquilizer i The relief from use of drugs is ei course only temporary At the' same time it is apparently safe 1 relief Dr Davis found in autnos 1 ie af his monkeys that there a, Bo damage from use of the drugs Although he has sound one ele ment af mental trouble and where ) is located, i peiwitneut cure it (till beyond soeoc Teamster bff ice Vote Slated Again ' PORTLAND Julv V r n Jher election is tn h held ion rhonat the third Orion rrpr. arntativ ta the polio runrmtie dj the Wester Conferrme nl. teamsters Nan of th three candidates Clyde Crosby. Clifford C Fsanin and Jack Estabrook. all f Port land got the required majority k aa earlier election. 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