Word: neurologists
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...that technology may circumvent some of these dilemmas. "We may someday be able to genetically engineer the cells we need -- add the genes for dopamine to cells, grow them in culture and use them in the brain. Whatever happens," he says, "it will be exciting." Notes New York University Neurologist Abraham Lieberman, who will assist in N.Y.U.'s first adrenal-cell transplant this week: "Five years ago, when you talked about brain transplantation, you were talking about Boris Karloff and Frankenstein. Today it's no longer science fiction...
...case, the pre-med stereotype really does fit. So do the labels social wizard and musical prodigy. But no psychologist, neurologist, or any other "ist" can explain how to combine all these stereotypes into one generalization that describes the life of Madison Sample...
...gifts of the savants, writes Neurologist Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, can be a "quality that takes one aback." He says, "Often the severely retarded have plenty of potential if educated right," but adds, "The question is, What constitutes right? The mental language of each person is different." Nevertheless, the parents of Hope University students take heart at the ways Walker and her small staff are developing talent and self-confidence. As one father, University of California Biology Professor Howard Lenhoff, puts it,"The one thing that worries every parent...
Last week the Milwaukee Sentinel reported that since 1961, two of 155 deaths among people who had worked in the plant where Milorganite is produced resulted from ALS. The Sentinel has also turned up 25 ALS patients in Wisconsin who say they have been exposed to the fertilizer. Neurologist Benjamin Brooks, who directs an ALS research clinic at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, considers these numbers "unusual" and feels any possible tie to heavy metals should be investigated. But he stresses that as yet "there is no established link between Milorganite and ALS." Late last week the sewerage district...
...Similar antibodies can damage other natal tissues," the neurologist said, adding that children of mothers with lupus have an increased chance of developing congenital heart block. The conclusion that antibodies can also damage brain tissue is "a very small step," Galaburda said...