Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After cracking a joke about someone else's weight, he is hoisted up to bring Don Juan down. It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship as doctor and lunatic are whisked away to a mental hospital to "cure" the delusions of the young romancer. Within days, Jack is swept into the world of his patient, whom he comes wholeheartedly to believe is truly the legend he claims...
...alone. Researchers do not know for certain whether this is because more women are drinking alcohol during pregnancy or because doctors are doing a better job of diagnosing the problem. Symptoms of the syndrome, which was first described in the mid-1970s, include mental retardation, abnormal facial features, central nervous system problems, behavioral difficulties and growth deficiencies...
...Evan Y. Snyder of the Neurology and Pediatrics departments of Children's Hospital and Dr. John H. Wolfe of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania successfully corrected disease progression in afflicted mice serving as animal models for Sly Disease, an inherited human ailment characterized by mental retardation. The fatal disease afflicts fewer than one in 100,000 humans...
...progressive, debilitating pathology leads to heart and breathing problems, crippling, mental retardation and eventually death within one to two decades...
...most people, a momentary lapse of memory seems no more serious than getting the hiccups. But Los Angeles attorney Sally Weinper shudders every time she misplaces a file or draws a mental blank on a fine point of law. Weinper, 54, has already watched three aunts die of Alzheimer's disease. And now her mother is suffering from this terrifying illness that slowly destroys the brain and mind. "Because I know I'm at risk," Weinper says, "this insidious threat runs through every day of my life. To be trapped in your body but not be able to formulate words...