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...unspecified damages. Given the large awards handed out by the courts in similar cases over the past two decades that had driven other opposition leaders into bankruptcy, Chee had good reason to be apprehensive. He had been at the receiving end of defamation suits himself. The 39-year-old neuropsychologist lost his teaching job at the National University of Singapore in 1993 after joining the opposition; he was sued in relation to comments he made thereafter, and had to pay $300,000. He has also been to jail twice over his refusal to pay fines for speaking in public without...
Others are not so sure. In a study published in 1999, Mayo Clinic researchers concluded that mold causes most chronic sinus infections. Even more alarming, several researchers believe that molds can cause some types of brain damage. Wayne Gordon, a neuropsychologist, and Dr. Eckardt Johanning, both of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, have seen enough patients whose problems with memory, learning and concentration occurred only after exposure to stachybotrys to convince them there is a relationship. Still, they concede, more research is needed...
Such thorny human concerns are at the heart of a pioneering research effort that is bent on clinically identifying the long-term emotional and social effects of early genetic testing. Directed by neuropsychologist Jason Brandt of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the project enlists the talents of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, geneticists and ethicists to track the consequences of testing for the genetic mutation that causes deadly Huntington's disease. The program, says Brandt, "is seeking to determine how best to offer this test...
...those patients who took one or the other, the effects were dramatic. They were able to maintain daily functions, such as dressing themselves and handling money, and they stayed out of institutions months longer than patients not on the drugs. "The effect is very important," says Columbia University neuropsychologist Mary Sano, who led the study. "These are outcomes that relate to the quality of life of the patients and their families...
With Grandin and other subjects, Sacks has refined the case history into an art form. As his friend and colleague New York City neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg puts it, "Oliver has salvaged the uniqueness of patients from statistical averaging." Indeed, each essay seems like an extended house call from an old-fashioned family doctor. There is also Sacks' open, encompassing style that welcomes the reader into his esoteric world. "A neurologist's life is not systematic," he writes, "but it provides him with novel and unexpected situations, which can be windows, peepholes, into the intricacy of nature-an intricacy that...