Word: dementia
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...brief but telling interview. The sort of gibberish offered up by Pinochet in answer to specific charges might charitably be imagined as the playing out of his legal defense strategy of pleading senile dementia so as to evade his day in court. But there's something else in those answers. Something particularly disturbing to the Chilean military, whose leaders have by and large stood by Pinochet through his legal ordeal...
...Research and Manufacturers of America. These include 26 drugs for depression, a disease that affects 19 million Americans each year and costs the country more than $23 billion in lost work days and decreased productivity. Other drugs in the pipeline target schizophrenia, anxiety phobias and various forms of senile dementia, most notably Alzheimer's. All told, drug companies are betting $6 billion a year on R. and D. in hopes of creating new blockbuster drugs like Eli Lilly's Prozac, whose patent expires...
GOLDEN OLDIES You might not expect to see an 85-year-old at an 'N Sync concert, but researchers in Italy find that elderly folks with dementia can suddenly develop surprising tastes in music. In one case, a classical-music buff began to enjoy, at full blast, an Italian pop band he had once derided as "mere noise." Explanation? Lesions in the brain may damage areas involved in music perception. Or perhaps dementia simply changes one's attitude toward novelty...
Read this book not for its epic retelling of his long descent into dementia or its ax-grinding with the singer's fourth wife, Barbara Marx, but for its thoughtful, sometimes moving recollections of growing up as Beverly Hills-Palm Springs royalty with an intermittently available father whose flaws cast very long shadows. Though there's little about music here, another of Ms. Sinatra's observations puts Frank's shortcomings into proper perspective: "Had he been a healthier, less tortured man, he might have been Perry Como." Of course you can't balance a childhood against...
...What is state of the art today may not be tomorrow, as new discoveries lead to a revision of our understanding of how things work. The inclusion in your list of psychiatrist Julius Wagner von Jauregg as an unworthy Nobel recipient is incredible. His malaria-fever therapy to treat dementia was used throughout the world for 50 years and helped relieve a lot of suffering. ROBERT A. HARRIS Stockholm...