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...Take a neurosurgeon practicing in New York State in 1970 and making $70,000 a year. He had to pay about $4,700 annually for malpractice insurance, which protected him against lawsuits from dissatisfied patients. Today the cost of that insurance is about $14,000. The precipitous rise is not confined to New York. Across the U.S., insurance companies are hiking premiums* as more and more patients hale doctors and medical institutions into court-and as juries increasingly award damages in six-and seven-figure amounts...
Gene Wilder, who co-wrote the screenplay, plays the wild-eyed, wild-haired grandson of the Baron von Frankenstein in a brilliant, highly personal take-off on the familiar character of the mad genius. He begins the movie as an American neurosurgeon frantically embarrassed by his ancestor's antiscientific shenanigans. Forced to journey to Transylvania to receive the Baron's will, he discovers the ancient laboratory and is seduced by his grandfather's dreams--providing the set-up for a spoof of every major scene in the original film, interrupted by the tangents of Brooks's imagination and concluded...
...Zervas of Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School, a large part of stroke injury may be caused by imbalances in the brain's neurotransmitters, the chemicals that carry nerve impulses from one neuron, or brain cell, to another. The doctors base their theory on experiments in which Neurosurgeon Zervas produced massive strokes in 13 monkeys by cutting off blood flow-and thus oxygen-to the left sides of their brains. Examining the brains afterward, he and Wurtman found that there were dramatic changes in the levels of dopamine, a substance that transmits nerve impulses among the brain cells...
...memories by tasting a tea-soaked petite Madeleine. Others have found that a memory-jogging whiff of perfume, a word, a few notes of music can conjure up similar-and often realistic-recollections of events they experienced many years earlier. A landmark discovery was made by the great Canadian neurosurgeon, Wilder Penfield, when he found that he could stimulate memories electrically. Probing a patient's brain with an electrode in order to locate the source of her epileptic seizures, Penfield was amazed when the young woman recalled an incident from her childhood in vivid detail. Penfield continued his studies...
Technical progress in areas apparently unrelated to medicine can sometimes lead to spectacular medical progress. Dr. Robert Rand, a neurosurgeon at the University of California at Los Angeles, has demonstrated a particular knack for encouraging just that sort of scientific serendipity. A decade ago he borrowed from the emerging technology of cryogenics (application of temperatures close to absolute zero*) and helped to adapt an extremely cold probe to destroy hard-to-reach pituitary tissue in brain operations. Now Rand is making use of another recently utilized phenomenon: superconductivity. With the help of a powerful "superconductive" magnet, he is accomplishing knifeless...