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...most of his life, Henry Molaison, 82, was known as H.M., an amnesiac whose inability to form new memories made him the star of several groundbreaking studies of the brain...
Stanford law professor HENRY GREELY, on the use of brain-stimulating drugs like Ritalin on college campuses, in a controversial essay that welcomes such pharmaceutical enhancement...
...there are reasons that stimulant maintenance treatment was not initially studied more extensively. For one, high doses of amphetamines can cause brain damage, psychosis, heart attack and stroke. (High doses of opioids like methadone, in contrast, can also be dangerous, but once a patient develops a tolerance to them, even very high doses of the drugs are not toxic.) The consequences of high-dose use are important, since addicts in treatment often try at least once to use illegal drugs "on top" of their maintenance drug. So far, however, studies of dexamphetamine and similar drugs have not revealed major safety...
...According to Rebecca C. Alssid, the director of BU’s masters program in Gastronomy, the students “do get advised now, but sometimes they have to run from someone in one department to another...NYU, I believe, is facing similar problems.” THE BRAIN AND THE BELLYThere is no shortage of opinion on how a food studies curriculum should look if it were to become an acceptable discipline under the umbrella of FAS. Haber contends that any food-related undergraduate curriculum cannot be divorced from the practical side of food. “You?...
...Oberdoerffer said. When different parts of the cell are “turned on,” the cell performs a different function. “Every cell type expresses a distinct set of genes so that way you make one cell a kidney gene, one a brain cell,” Oberdoerffer added. “Every cell and every organ in your body has certain things to do, and if you mess around with that—[like if] your muscle cells express[es] a brain gene—then you can imagine that clearly your cell doesn?...