Word: cavanagh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie begins as things begin for recovering alcoholic Joe Cavanagh (Mullan), with the regular renewal and ritual therapy of an AA meeting (hence the title). Indulging in a sort of self-forgetting one might expect of someone with a blacked-out past, Joe throws himself into what he calls his family: coaching the local soccer team, a sorry lot of unemployables. Chance encounters and friend Liam lead Joe's path to intersect with social worker Sarah (Louise Goodall), who meets regularly with Liam, his wife and his "wean" (that's "child"; derived from "wee 'un"). Joe helps wallpaper Sarah...
...Cavanagh explained the discovery with a historical analogy. What the previous researchers had done, he said, was "like finding North America and calling it China...
...Cavanagh was one member of a team headed by Nouchine Hadjikhani, a research fellow at Harvard-affiliated Mass. General Hospital, that pinpointed the function of the new brain region, which they believe to be responsible for color vision. Their results were published in the July edition of Nature Neuroscience...
...Zeki and his colleagues are up in arms.They have submitted a letter to NatureNeuroscience arguing against the findings. Atissue--in what Cavanagh described as a case of"physiological infighting"--are the true locationsof V4 and V8, and what their functions...
...separate paper published alongside theHadjikhani findings in Nature Neuroscience,Cavanagh reported that this condition is a resultof a lesion...