Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...produced in a two-step process. First the researchers used pet scans, which measure how well cells are functioning, to probe the brains of dozens of people in the active throes of depression. Then they merged the results and compared them with those from a comparable number of normal patients. The pet scans showed a subtle but distinct difference: the subgenual prefrontal cortex was almost 8% less active in depressed patients than in the controls...
...moment there's no way doctors can use the new research to identify people at risk of mental illness. There is just too much normal variation in the sizes of the structures within the brain. But this latest finding should help researchers understand exactly what goes wrong when the brain is overwhelmed by hopelessness and, perhaps one day, help prevent the millions of Americans who may have inherited a propensity to depression from falling into the downward spiral of despair...
Hooray for Ellen DeGeneres! It is hard being gay, and it is especially hard to admit publicly that you are [TELEVISION, April 14]. Ellen's coming out will help everyone else see that gays are not freaks but are normal and sometimes even famous. No one chooses to be gay; we are born that way. But even in today's world, there are folks who are still closed-minded. A lot of us work hard to hide our sexuality for fear of being outcast, harassed or fired. Ellen has helped us take a step in the right direction. NAME WITHHELD...
...find it very disturbing when homosexuality is portrayed as a normal, alternative life-style. TV quite often glamorizes what happens in real life. Someone needs to take a stand on moral values. MARGARET WIEBE Winnipeg, Manitoba...
...England Journal of Medicine shows for the first time that the mental deterioration of Alzheimer's can be slowed significantly by two common drugs: vitamin E and selegiline, a compound used to treat Parkinson's disease. The two-year study conducted by the National Institute on Aging showed that normal doses of selegiline or high doses of vitamin E, both of which are antioxidants, slowed the rate of disability among patients with moderately severe Alzheimer's by an average of seven months. Neither drug reversed the disease, and their potency decreased when they were taken together...