Word: neurologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small cut on her shin to an ugly eight-inch gash, whose scar is still there. Seufert bruised the back of her neck severely in hitting the water on a 10-meter dive, later reinjured herself the same way, and eventually noticed a tingling in her fingers. A neurologist told her that if she continued to land on her neck, not her head, she could become paralyzed...
...with a patient's ability to breathe, as well as contribute to nausea and add to the strain on the heart. Chronic pain often leads to an endless cycle of anxiety, depression, loss of appetite, profound fatigue and sleeplessness, all of which make the pain seem worse. Says Neurologist Kathleen Foley, president of the American Pain Society: "Chronic pain destroys lives...
Pain like Beauregard's is still something of a mystery to doctors. What caused it? Why did it arrive one night without warning? Why will it not go away? According to Neurologist Howard Fields of U.C.S.F., there is intriguing evidence that in many cases when pain persists for several months, changes of a relatively permanent nature occur in the nervous system, so that even if the original cause of the pain is removed, the sensation of pain continues. "We don't have any idea how that comes about," he says. Trying to reverse the changes, he observes...
...report's conclusions met with some dissent. Panelist Lawrence Stark, a neurologist at the University of California, while agreeing that VDTs do not cause permanent eye damage, contested the view that they are not responsible for eye fatigue. "The report is a whitewash for the status quo," said Stark. "All the complaints of burning, eyestrain, headache, stinging, watery eyes connected with VDT use are valid claims. Just because you cannot measure visual fatigue does not mean it does not exist...
...once thought that severely demented AD patients could not live very long. Today, says Chicago Neurologist Jacob Fox, they can survive for upwards of 15 years. "We've gotten better at preserving lives," he says, "but it's not clear we're doing the person a favor." Understandably, Alzheimer's patients can suffer severe depression. Their families may suffer even more. In addition to the enormous costs of health care and institutionalization, which is generally not covered by Medicare or private insurance, there is the terrible, haunting sense of loss to family members of the person...