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...Christine Gorman. Reported by Deborah Fowler/Houston
...conducted the research, because that would have required therapy, not practical with rats. Extensive work and more research is needed before the study can be applied to humans. "The results are interesting because of what they reveal about how the spinal cord behaves in injury," says TIME's Christine Gorman. "But it may not provide a lot of information about how to treat the injuries. First of all, the research was done on rats, which means it might not transfer directly to humans. Secondly, the rats' spinal cords were severed in a laboratory, which imitates but does not duplicate...
Panic disorder probably results from a "combination of a genetic predisposition and some number of traumatic separations in childhood," according to Dr. Jack Gorman, a Columbia University psychiatrist. But whatever the cause, the brain of a person who suffers from it is different from that of someone who does not. Stimulation studies using the drug yohimbine have revealed an abnormal firing rate in an area of the brain stem called the locus ceruleus, which is rich in cells that release the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, the trigger for human fight-or-flight response. This primal alarm system has obvious survival value--useful...
...Christine Gorman...
...Christine Gorman...