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...bigger goal: to warp Middle America's sense of reality in my favor. If I play my cards right, there will come the day that not a single human neuron from Bangor to San Diego will fire unless I say so. I already have a list of trends to manipulate...
Matthew explained he will use the money to continue current research "concerned with cell surface molecules and the role they play in developing the nervous system." He has discovered an antibody that inhibits neuron growth and will use it in his study of nerve regeneration...
...continues until the Mortal eventually concedes that he does not want God to remove his free will, even if given the choice. Editor Douglas R. Hofstadter carries the question one step further, raising the issue of whether science has not replaced religious conception of free will with the mighty neuron...
...presiding supervisor of Hempstead Township (pop. 800,000), attacked Javits for supporting SALT II, the Equal Rights Amendment and Government-paid abortions. With questionable taste, D'Amato also made issues out of his opponent's age and health. Javits admitted that he suffers from motor neuron disease, which is slowly withering his muscles. One D'Amato commercial showed a wrinkled Javits poster slowly falling to the ground as an announcer intoned: "And now, at age 76 and in failing health, he wants another six years...
Still, discoveries almost amounted to biochemical wizardry. Why, for instance, did drugs control disordered thought and hallucinations in some schizophrenics, yet fail abysmally in others? To unravel such puzzles, researchers turned increasingly to the brain, composed of tens of billions of nerve cells called neurons. Passing electrical impulses from one part of the brain to another, these elongated, finger-like cells communicate with one another across junctions or gaps-synapses-by the release of chemicals called neurotransmitters. As these chemical broad jumpers leap across a synapse, carrying their message, they attach themselves to the neighboring cell, triggering a fresh electrical...