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...turns out that the placebo effect is especially powerful in Parkinson's disease. That's why Curt Freed at the University of Colorado and Stanley Fahn at Columbia University decided to create a control group whose members could be fooled into thinking they were getting the full surgical treatment. "When you have something as major as surgery," says Fahn, in defense of his experiment, "wouldn't it be best to know there was some benefit...
...there is a great possibility something could be wrong." But the doctors denied that Ali was suffering from dementia pugilistica, a medical term for the often caricatured condition of the simple-minded bruiser who has taken one punch too many. "He is not punch-drunk," said Dr. Stanley Fahn, the neurologist in charge of his case. Nor, doctors insisted, is Ali suffering from Parkinson's disease, a disorder that occurs when the brain ceases to produce sufficient amounts of dopamine, a substance that helps in the transmission of nerve impulses involved with motor control. Having some of the symptoms...
Many boxers with cavum septi pellucidi suffer permanently from the Parkinsonian symptoms that sent Ali to the hospital. After two days in the hospital, however, Fahn reported "that Ali was responding so well to doses of Sinemet and Symmetrel, drugs that replenish the brain's supply of dopamine, that his symptoms were "melting away." Visitors, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, said that Ali was entertaining other patients with magic tricks and seemed to be his old ebullient self. Before leaving the hospital for a trip to the Sudan, Ali vowed to mend his ways...
...Mahty fahn, Tahm, to know Jaw-juh's on yoah mahn...
...Well, Orion is finally here, Houston. Fahn-taah-stick...