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...Chronic Carriers. One nagging mystery remains: If the Australia antigen is indeed responsible for hepatitis, why is it found in so many apparently unrelated conditions? Hematologists, for example, found it in only one of 1,000 blood samples from healthy Americans, many of whom may have had a mild case of hepatitis without knowing it. The antigen was found in the blood of 30% of mongolism victims living in large institutions, which are often swept by viral epidemics. It is common among leukemia patients who presumably get it through transfusions. It was also discovered in 9% of patients with...
...most likely answer, according to the researchers, is not that the virus causes such disorders. It is that victims of those diseases are especially susceptible to infection. The hepatitis virus thus finds them an easy target and can even make them chronic carriers...
Another researcher, Dr. David Shapiro of the Harvard Medical School, has trained subjects to raise and lower their blood pressure in response to a tone feedback. Shapiro is hopeful that persons suffering from chronic high blood pressure may one day learn to lower it at will, but clearly much more will have to be known about the autonomic system itself. Theoretically, man may someday be able to control his internal processes to relieve insomnia, regulate constipation and improve sexual response. But, warns Dr. Neal E. Miller of Rockefeller University, who has done much of the seminal research to date...
Neatly Dressed. An even more challenging experiment in reinforcement therapy was begun eight years ago by Psychologists Teodoro Ayllon and Nathan Azrin at Anna State Hospital. In a ward of 46 chronic female schizophrenics and mental defectives, they exposed patients to the pleasures of cigarettes, television, a choice of roommates, social events and even walks around the hospital grounds. Then they announced that, henceforth, patients would have to "buy" everything except regular meals, a bed in the least desirable room and their prescribed medicines. They could earn metal "tokens" to make purchases simply by demonstrating normal behavior. Attendants then began...
...skill may be magnified by even minute amounts of alcohol; 5) the normal driver who is unusually sensitive to alcohol; 6) the motorist who is prone to "aggressive, sociopathic driving," and who may become even wilder with a few drinks in him; 7) the driver whose basic problem is "chronic, compulsive, sociopathic drinking...