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When my editor asked me to write an article for the What's Next issue, I panicked. I foresaw long hours in laboratories trying to interpret the jargon of scientists finding new ways to map the brain, implant RFID chips in my skin or create a tofu that fails in its attempt to taste like yet another kind of meat. What, I pondered, would be the easiest subject I could tackle? What never changes? The answer suddenly seemed obvious: What's Next ... with the Amish. How hard could that be? I could report and write the piece while watching television...
...start. I contend that the situation was in no way secret. Non-Americans knew even before the war began that if the U.N. didn't run the postwar occupation, a disaster was inevitable. The U.S. is the dinosaur of modern conflict - all brute force with a peanut-size brain, completely outdated in a world where credibility comes first. Sam Smith Oxford, England...
...that the specimens are of a “pygmy human and not a new species,” he said. The other is that the remains are of “a human who suffered a form of microcephaly, a pathological condition characterized by an abnormally small brain and head, and which may also cause dwarfism.” The chair of Yale’s Anthropology Department, Andrew Hill, expressed professional approval of the hypothesis of a new species. “I’m sure it has to be a species distinct from...
...medical school, found that placing magnetic wands over the heads of stroke patients can help them to regain lost motor skills. The non-invasive therapy, called transcranial magnetic simulation (TMS), uses a figure eight-shaped coil to deliver weak, pulsating electrical currents to specific areas of the brain. When the therapy is applied for 10 to 20 minutes to the brain’s motor cortex, the magnetic field generated by the electrical currents “improved motor functions in stroke patients,” Fregni said. When healthy, the two sides of the brain communicate with each other...
...study and assistant neurologist at MGH Stroke Service. Some doctors avoid using tPA at early stages of stroke onset because symptoms appear to be mild or improving, according to Smith. Some patients also arrive at the hospital too late for treatment and would have an increased risk of brain hemorrhaging if tPA were given, Smith said. “This study found that 27 to 30 percent of these ‘too good to treat’ patients had worsening symptoms or died,” Smith said. Researchers reviewed the records of 400 patients that came...