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Disconnected links in brain may cause dyslexia A Harvard study has suggested a physical basis for dyslexia. The team mapped the brains of six sufferers of the genetic disorder periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH), who show many of the symptoms of dyslexia. A normal brain has grey matter or nerve cells near its surface and white matter which connects the grey matter deeper inside. The team found that the brains they imaged were more disordered. They posited that this was the cause of reduced fluent reading skills.The study was led by Harvard Medical School professor Christopher A. Walsh, Beth Israel Deaconess...
...Nodular Implant. A few minutes before 8 o'clock Friday morning Dulles was wheeled into an operating room, put under anesthetic. Surgeon Heaton cut a small incision in the patient's groin to get at the hernia, kept his eye peeled for a sign of recurrence of the cancer. On the hernia sac he found a suspicious-looking nodular implant. He noticed, too, that a small amount of abdominal fluid was released after the sac was cut away. By Walter Reed's high-speed pneumatic tubes he shot the tissue and the fluid to the laboratory...
...million shades in that field alone. New Bedford, Mass, got its first all-nylon mill; in Taftville, Conn., the Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. transformed field corn into a new fiber called "Vicara," to be used for ties, scarves, etc. In Ohio, found-rymen excitedly poured experimental batches of "nodular iron," hoped that the new process, using magnesium, might revolutionize the whole casting industry...
Lungs. The lungs have become the seventh most frequent locale for cancer. (First is the stomach; second the uterus; third the breast.) The lung type has often been mistaken for tuberculosis or other diseases. The mistake is excusable, for the symptoms of cancer, which may be nodular, infiltrating and diffuse or miliary, resemble in some respects those of acute and chronic tuberculosis, fibroid phthisis, fibroid pleurisy, unresolved pneumonia, syphilis of the lungs, mucoses of the lungs, bronchiectasis, interlobar empyema, abscess of the lungs and enlargements and tumors common to the mediastinum. Of cancer of the lungs the constant symptoms seem...
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