Word: brains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RUSSELL LONG usually barges into Senate hearings as if he were entering a red-neek Southern bar. Last year, he swung open the doors to a House-Senate conference drawling, "I hope it won't give anyone a brain hemmorage to hear a new idea." Well Long has just come up with a new one that's bound to give Americans more than a nose bleed. He has gotten together with Al Ullman--the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee--to propose a value added tax (VAT) which could drastically change the American tax system...
Kemper said more research is needed to prove the significance of his findings. "This is simply one brain; this is only one step," he said...
...researchers, Dr. Albert M. Galaburda, a neurologist, and Dr. Thomas L. Kemper, a neuropathologist, studied the brain of a 20-year-old dyslexic, who died in an accident, and found structural abnormalities in the language center, part of the left hemisphere of the brain...
...members of the Harvard Medical School faculty recently made a significant breakthrough in the study of dyslexia, a brain disorder that impairs reading ability...
Scientists in the past have considered dyslexia to be a psychological disorder, but this study provides "the first clear demonstration of structural changes in the brain" in a dyslexic person, Kemper said yesterday...