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Scientists still do not know how it produces its psychic effects, but they believe it somehow causes a buildup of "neuro-transmitters." substances that make possible the movement of impulses across nerve endings. It also causes an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, and some of its other consequences are distinctly unpleasant. Prolonged use sometimes causes the nasal tissues to wear away so that the nose itself collapses. Chronic use may lead to a psychosis most resembling alcoholic DTs. Overdoses, particularly when injected, can lead to convulsions, heart and respiratory failure and death...
Sweet, as chairman of the Neuro-Research Foundation, also sent two funding proposals to the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA), the research and development arm of the Justice Department. LEAA granted them $188,000 in 1971 for a study of the biological basis of criminal behavior and a study of the possible linking of gene abnormalities with criminal behavior...
...test does and what it does not do. But Herrnstein is even more confused about the relation between human intelligence and heredity. My own extensive studies on the factors which produce retardation have demonstrated beyond doubt that extremely low I.Q.s among children (below 55) are due to neuro-psychiatric disorders, the large collection of developmental disorders and illnesses which interfere with mentation. These are to a limited extent of a genetic nature (metabolic errors) and to a larger extent due to external influences which have operated upon the embryo or the growing child. (This population with extremely low I.Q.s includes...
Davis said yesterday that the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation and the National Foundation for Genetics and Neuro-muscular Diseases have recently launched a campaign to educate people and get support for continued work in the medical uses of genetics...
Harvard's newest member of the Board of Overseers, elected last Spring, is both a distinguished neuro-biology researcher and prominent Stanford professor active in several faculty committees...