Word: neurologist
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...scramble among drug companies to be the first to find the critical enzyme. And it's easy to see why. "You can take the protease, put it in a test tube and keep adding chemicals until you find one that inhibits the enzyme," says Dr. Rudy Tanzi, a Harvard neurologist whose lab unraveled key aspects of the genetics of Alzheimer...
...scientists who both offer the vision and raise the alarms. People with exceptional, photographic memories, they note, sometimes complain of mental overload. "Such people," says University of Iowa neurologist Dr. Antonio Damasio, "have enormous difficulty making decisions, because every time they can think of 20 different options to choose from." There is luxury and peace in forgetting, sometimes; it literally clears the mind, allows us to focus on the general rather than the specific and immediate evidence in front of us. Maybe it even makes room for reflection on questions like when better is not necessarily good...
...German neurologist Alois Alzheimer identifies a disorder that causes the progressive loss of intellectual functioning...
...Neurologist David Hershleder is a workaholic with a runaway wife and a terrible historical burden. His mother, a Holocaust survivor, is driven mad by the latest big lie of anti-Semitism: that Hitler's genocide factories at Auschwitz and elsewhere are fabrications by Zionist propagandists. Novelist Schulman's accomplishment is to guide Dr. Hershleder to the source of his free-floating anguish and then discreetly join the enormity of his legacy to his domestic woes. The author also leaves the reader in a state of disturbed speculation. If Holocaust revisionism becomes accepted history, how long will it take for Hitler...
...years old) and donor. For the recipient the benefits must clearly outweigh the heavy risks; he or she must be willing to accept the likelihood of limited function and feeling in the new limb, a lifetime of medication, the ever present threat of infection and, finally, what San Francisco neurologist and hand therapist Dr. Frank R. Wilson calls the heavy psychological burden of being reminded daily that "an important part of your anatomy is not your own." It won't be an easy decision for patient or doctors...