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...would anyone want to generate tiny electrical currents in their brain? "You have to remember the brain is both an electrical and a chemical organ," says Dr. Mark George, a psychiatrist at the Medical University of South Carolina who is investigating magnetic stimulation as a treatment for depression for the NIMH. Drugs like Prozac and Zoloft address chemical imbalances, but that's only part of the problem. Electroconvulsive therapy, despite its troubling side effects, is still one of the most effective treatments available for severe, unrelenting depression...
These scientists are the first to admit that they are treating a dizzyingly complex organ--the human brain--with not much more than educated guesswork. But when you hear the gratitude in Martha's voice as she talks about what it's like to get her life back after so many years of deep depression, it seems a risk worth taking. --With reporting by Alice Park/ New York...
...performers, despite some intonation difficulties in the upper winds, produced a powerful sound, while retaining control. They retuned before the second piece, Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Fantasia in G, BWV 572,” originally written for organ. The richness of the low brass made this atypical arrangement convincing, although anyone seeking to envision it as authentic was jarringly shaken back into the twenty-first century with the crashing cymbal...
Sunday, March 13. Harvard Organ Society presents Bradley Welch in its E. Power Biggs Series. 7:30 p.m. Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland St. $15, students and Harvard affiliates $10. Tickets available through Harvard Box Office...
...teachers at an English boarding school in the late 1960s constantly tell the children that they are "special." Only trouble is, "special" has a very special meaning at this particular school. The children are, in fact, clones, genetically engineered for a sinister purpose - to serve as organ donors. Sounds like the perfect setup for a kids-on-the-run sci-fi thriller. But Ishiguro's characters don't do rebellion. This writer is fascinated by people simply making the best of their fates. So there are no chases through woods, no baying bloodhounds. Instead, the book takes on a cool...