Word: neurologist
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Mayo's Neurologist Peter J. Dyck checked the patients for possible nerve disorders; none were significant. The researchers found, as they expected, that most of the restless-leg patients were anxious or depressed, and most of them had more severe episodes at times of stress. Men and women are likely to be affected at any age, and it may be that as much as 5% of the population suffers occasional touches of the disorder, though not severe enough to send the sufferers to a doctor...
...Named for French Neurologist Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne, who first described the muscular disorders...
Next was Dr. Martin Towler, a University of Texas neurologist and psychiatrist who had spent hours examining Ruby for Judge Joe Brown in order to offer a neutral source of information to the court. Towler had made electroencephalographic examinations (brainwave readings) of Ruby, told the jury that his graphs showed "paroxysmal discharges" from parts of Ruby's brain-indicating that "the subject is suffering from a seizure disorder." But in crossexamination, District Attorney Wade asked Towler if he meant to imply to the jury that Ruby had been out of his mind when he shot Oswald. Replied Towler...
...emotionally wrong with the defendant. The prosecution brought in its own squad of equally expert professionals, who testified to the contrary. Rebuttal was met with counterrebuttal and the witnesses were cross-examined till they were crosseyed. At the last minute, Belli put in a rush call to Chicago, persuaded Neurologist Frederic A. Gibbs-who had been reluctant to testify-to fly immediately to Dallas to help the defense. Gibbs got on the stand and said that Ruby was a victim of psychomotor variant epilepsy, characterized by "lack of emotional control-impulsive and obsessive types of behavior...
...biggest in any sense, except perhaps in the youth of our staff, and we have no 'firsts' to talk about yet," says Dr. Green. "But we expect to have a number of firsts before too long." He well may. Britain's famed Neurologist Macdonald Critchley, accustomed to working on pinched budgets, helped to dedicate the Barrow equipment and said, with understandable envy: "This is a dream institute...