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...hormone system poured out a flood of adrenaline to equip him equally well for "fight or flight." Now it is known that the hormone system is far more complex. Besides adrenaline, and perhaps more important, there are the hormones produced in the adrenal gland's cortex-hydrocortisone and closely related compounds. And a new study indicates that today's fighting man, far from flooding himself with such hormones in times of stress, actually finds subconscious ways to suppress them...
Penfield also argued that children control the growth of their own brains. "By selecting to what he will attend, the child conditions his own cortex," he said. "As the years pass, the child, with the help of mothers and teachers, may be said to create his own brain mechanisms...
...balanced her in a luxus of mind, shimmering, orbicular .... eldetic smells of the sterness yet warmness of rum manufactured themselves somewhere in his brain, an acidotic Juice of eye, tympanum, olfactory endings, paplliae, ran over its pink cortex as from torn fruit flesh...
...Infection with what is awkwardly called cytomegalic inclusion disease (it has no familiar name) is hard to distinguish from other sniffles and fevers, but may cause babies to be born with virtually no skull or brain cortex, reports Boston's Dr. Thomas H. Weller, a Nobel prizewinner for his work on the polio virus. Some infant victims appear almost normal at birth, but then become microcephalic ("pinheads") because their skulls fail to grow...
...Conn reasoned that a hormone must be at work, influencing especially the body's handling of salts. But nobody had identified a hormone with such precise effects. He could only guess that it was one of the many produced by the outer cortex or "bark" of the adrenal glands which are astride the kidneys. In the early 1950s, other investigators confirmed Conn's hunch by isolating an adrenal hormone now called aldosterone and recognized as one of the most powerful of all the body's chemicals...