Word: neurologist
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...James Bond's fate left hanging. Agent 007, of course, survives to brave new dangers in Doctor No, in which it is revealed that he had been dealt a near fatal dose of fugu poison. "It comes from the sex organs of the Japanese globe-fish," an eminent neurologist tells Bond's boss. "It's terrible stuff and very quick...
...husband was injured in a fall on May 19. The neurologist asked him the names of the mayor of Los Angeles and the Vice President of the U.S. He answered correctly. On June 1 he was rushed to a second hospital where a craniotomy was performed. He had a blood clot on the brain...
Died. Dr. Walter J. Freeman, 76, psychiatrist and neurologist who pioneered the use of prefrontal and trans-orbital lobotomies as a treatment for severe mental illness; of cancer; in San Francisco. In 1936 Freeman performed the first lobotomy in the U.S. by severing the nerves from the frontal lobes of a patient's brain. An ardent and vocal champion of the controversial procedure, he once supervised or performed 238 operations over a two-week period. Because lobotomies are irreversible and leave some patients in a vegetable-like condition, the treatment was gradually abandoned during...
Irresistible Signal. In her 20s Penelope Conner became known for something more than her critical acuity. There was that flaming hair, for one thing, and that look of perpetual astonishment. And there were the men. She was married for seven years to a brilliant neurologist, Roger Gilliatt-the best man at the wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. The Gilliatts split when she ran off with Playwright John Osborne (Look Back in Anger). After five years of volatile marriage, she and Osborne called it finis. She got custody of their only child, Nolan Kate. For a brief time...
Most of yoga's devotees feel that the putative rewards of the exercises are worth the effort. Others may get something less than nirvana for their troubles. Dr. Joseph Chusid, a neurologist, told the A.M.A. Journal that sitting on the heels can damage the lower leg's peroneal nerve and lead to a complaint that he calls yoga foot drop...