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...powerful reason why that is true at St. Christopher's is the system of pain control developed by Dame Cicely and others. The hospice only admits patients with terminal cancer or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, the motor-neuron illness commonly known in the U.S. as Lou Gehrig's disease. Fully 60% of new arrivals suffer from pain that has been consuming them, sometimes for weeks. With a combination of morphine and other drugs, such as tranquilizers, administered every four hours, the pain is quickly eliminated for most patients. But other components of pain are, in their way, equally agonizing...
...Neuron Model...
Hobson and his colleague, Robert McCarley, say they found the brain appears to contain two populations of neurons, which are cells specialized for transmitting sensory information, and each type of neuron interacts with the sleep process in different ways...
Hobson says his dual neuron dream model allows him and his research staff to study "dreaming as a state as opposed to dreaming as a story." Hobson's concept allowed the researchers to study the content of dreams not as Sigmund Freud would have psychoanalyzed them, but as physiological processes...
DIED. Richard Ellmann, 69, scholarly author of James Joyce, the definitive biography of the Irish novelist, and the first American to become a professor of English literature at Oxford University; of pneumonia brought on by a motor-neuron ailment commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease; in Oxford, England...