Word: normale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shelters, drink free soup in church kitchens during the day and try to carry their possessions as unobtrusively as possible to avoid the stigma of grimy, bulging plastic bags. They do not match the stereotypes; In fact, their loneliness tends to exaggerate eccentricities they might have hidden in a normal life...
Past research has shown that abnormal dopamine levels play a role in Parkinson's disease, schizophrenia and possibly narcolepsy, but the Stanford research appears to be the first to link the chemical to a normal personality trait. "There's nothing pathological about shyness," says Psychiatrist Roy King, who headed the study. He concedes that research such as his could lead to new drugs that modify individual personality, but finds the concept "scary." Besides, he says, "society needs both extroverted and introverted people...
...Geneticist W. Ted Brown, of the New York State Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities (IBR) on Staten Island. Brown's team uses a technique in which snippets of DNA taken from the X chromosomes of people suspected of having the condition are compared with snippets from their normal relatives...
...going to let disabled people behave like a normal freshman, and it's a good socialization experience," said Wallace, who heads the disabled students group, Advocacy for a Better Learning Environment (ABLE...
...think if the school didn't work us so hard, we'd be more normal," first-year student Joshua M. Newman says...