Word: neuromuscular
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...animal with an inherent capacity to do so. Like a bud, this marvelous ability lies fallow in the newborn, awaiting only the right influence to release it. To Bruner, the infant hand speaks a kind of faltering language at birth, and incrementally exhibits its innate competence-just as the neuromuscular system involved in speech, by conquering its inexperience, ultimately produces syntax and fluency. Another experiment has helped persuade Bruner of certain parallels between the acquisition of muscular competence and of speech. An infant is given a cup of milk. It first draws the cup in at any angle and spills...
...life was not a singularly joyous one. Nor, despite exceptional intelligence and roots planted deep in Iowa soil, had it always been governed by common sense. Yet when the former Vice President died in a Danbury, Conn., hospital last week at 77, consumed by a rare, wasting neuromuscular ailment known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, his ideas and ideals had long since been woven into American life, his grand illusions all but forgotten. In the 17 years since he campaigned for the presidency as a candidate and captive of the Communist-dominated Progressive Party, Wallace had retreated into obscurity...
...hands now dangle too close to her knees, and she faces more surgery to shorten her arms - operations that are technically more forbidding because of the delicate neuromuscular control needed for the hands. But she is anxious to get on with it. "The most wonderful moment of all," she says, "will be when I can walk down the street looking at other people instead of trying to hide from them...
...British Veterinarian Herbert B. Parry, whose work is supported by New York's National Foundation for Neuromuscular Diseases, reports convincing evidence from years of study on 1,000 scrapie-ridden sheep that the disease is hereditary, being transmitted by a certain type of recessive gene. If both ram and ewe have two such genes, all their lambs will have scrapie. If one animal has the genes but its mate has none, the "clear" genes will dominate, and the lambs will have no disease. Dr. Parry is still checking a theory that if both parent animals have a single scrapie...
Psychological Effects. Workers in noisy surroundings often complain of such apparently psychogenic ailments as nausea, fatigue, headache, loss of neuromuscular coordination, and reduced sexual desire. "Noise can and does drive some people to distraction," says Dr. Knudsen. "If noise does nothing more than interfere with sleep -and this it does on a gigantic scale-it is a menace to good health." Knudsen carefully catalogued causes for his own middle-of-the-night awakenings, found that 75% were the result of noise. Most common culprits: auto horns, barking dogs, ambulance sirens, chirping birds. Dr. Knudsen's solution: earplugs. The plugs...