Word: neurologists
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...finding as both provocative and extraordinarily hopeful, for it provides what may be the clearest sign yet that a medically treatable condition can accelerate the decline of Alzheimer's patients and make the difference between independent living and a nursing home. "By preventing strokes," says University of Hawaii neurologist Dr. G. Webster Ross, "we may actually be able to postpone the development of symptoms in people who have Alzheimer...
University of Chicago pediatric neurologist Dr. Peter Huttenlocher has chronicled this extraordinary epoch in brain development by autopsying the brains of infants and young children who have died unexpectedly. The number of synapses in one layer of the visual cortex, Huttenlocher reports, rises from around 2,500 per neuron at birth to as many as 18,000 about six months later. Other regions of the cortex score similarly spectacular increases but on slightly different schedules. And while these microscopic connections between nerve fibers continue to form throughout life, they reach their highest average densities (15,000 synapses per neuron...
...increasingly clear that well-designed preschool programs can help many children overcome glaring deficits in their home environment. With appropriate therapy, say researchers, even serious disorders like dyslexia may be treatable. While inherited problems may place certain children at greater risk than others, says Dr. Harry Chugani, a pediatric neurologist at Wayne State University in Detroit, that is no excuse for ignoring the environment's power to remodel the brain. "We may not do much to change what happens before birth, but we can change what happens after a baby is born," he observes...
...Holmes Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She loves music, math and art--skills usually associated with the right half of the brain. And while Binder's recuperation is not 100%--for example, she has never regained the use of her left arm--it comes close. Says UCLA pediatric neurologist Dr. Donald Shields: "If there's a way to compensate, the developing brain will find...
College officials promise that there will be a new calendar in 1998, one that "reflects the diversity of the college." Critics are worried that the result will be a sanitized version that will interest few. Says author and neurologist (and calendar fan) Dr. Oliver Sacks: "There's nothing improper or grotesque about it--and only a certain kind of immature or prurient mind would see these exhibits that...