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...right, class, settle down. Today, for our course on human behavior, we are pleased to have three distinguished guests who will present a lecture and demonstration on the way man's brain determines man's actions. The seminar will be led by Dr. Henri Laborit, the Paris physician and biologist who has documented the source of aggression in all mammals-from white rats up through the most sophisticated human beings. To illustrate his thesis with scenes from the lives of three ordinary people, we have engaged the services of Jean Gruault, who has written some of the finest...
...first like a film experiment as dry as the dust on a neglected library shelf turns out to be a spectacular juggling act: of documentary and fiction, analysis and creativity, determinism and free will, comedy and tragedy, the past and the present. The three jugglers-Gruault, Resnais and Laborit-work in perfect sync, perhaps because their own pasts have prepared them for this challenge. Gruault's scripts have often described characters dominated by their emotions or by the whim of the historical moment. And nothing could be more natural than that Resnais, whose films have played with the real...
...greatest income yet may come from Ag 246, which was concocted-with the help of Chemist Camille Wermuth and longtime aide Dr. Bernard Weber-as an improvement on a Laborit arthritis drug. By molecular manipulation, Laborit and his colleagues created 40 variants of the arthritis medicine, then started systematically to test each one. On only the second try, they found what they were looking for. They called it Ag 246; it is also known as MEMPP, short for chlorhydrate of morpholino-ethyl-2 methy14 pheny16 pyridazone...
After 21 years of cautious testing Laborit reports that the intravenously administered drug enhances the effect of anesthetics, thus lowering the amount necessary for a patient, and thereby lowering the danger. It reduces inflammation, has an anticonvulsive effect useful in treatment of epilepsy, and has a suppressing effect on symptoms of Parkinson's disease. "But it is Ag 246's analgesic or pain-killing qualities that are perhaps most promising," says Laborit. Operations have already been carried out using the new drug with no anesthetic. The patients felt no pain but remained awake throughout the operation, carrying...
Such stunning successes are possible, explains Laborit, because of its ability "to depress all that which has to do with affectivity, with passions, rage-the reactions of the more primitive part of the brain-yet leave the advanced centers functioning." American and French companies are already planning to market his patented discovery within two years, after the continuing search for further uses or undesirable side effects has been completed. But even now, says the confident Laborit, "it would seem that one could say without being too optimistic, that pain in all its forms will be called upon to disappear while...