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Other medical advances of the final third of our century have been equally dazzling. They include arthroscopic and laparoscopic surgery, effective chemotherapy, the newer reproductive technologies and highly specific drug treatment of mental diseases. Physicians now routinely use sophisticated imaging techniques such as CAT and PET scans, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and vastly improved radioisotope methods for diagnosis and treatment, plus X ray-guided therapeutic and diagnostic interventions. The increased understanding of ultramicroscopic cellular activities has led to the development of new drugs for a wide variety of disorders, including heart disease...
Recently, positron-emission tomography (PET) scan studies at the UCLA School of Medicine have revealed that either Prozac or cognitive therapy can actually restore normal function in the obsessive-compulsive brain. The scans have documented that ocd patients have abnormal activity in the head of the caudate nucleus, a part of the brain's deep-dwelling basal ganglia, coupled with unusual activity in the orbital prefrontal cortex, just above the eye sockets. The caudate nucleus normally acts as a gatekeeper, determining which thoughts, feelings and behaviors take priority. When it malfunctions, the "worry inputs" generated in the orbital prefrontal region...
...tour de force), ambiguous supernatural powers, cruelty and revenge. Newcomers to King may be surprised to discover his fascination with bodily fluids other than blood (a bladder infection and a trouser wetting are key plot points). But the real shocker is that The Green Mile, with its doomed pet mouse and weepy, tender-hearted cons, is less a bold exercise in terror than a queer exercise in pathos...
...prime opponent to any change that threatens public schools is the National Education Association, the powerful teachers' group that has long supported Clinton's campaigns--so much so, in fact, that Dole's labeling Clinton the NEA's "pliant pet" is not at all wide of the mark. "I won't [make] education decisions that you're not a part of making," Clinton told the NEA in 1991. "I won't forget [who] brought me to the White House...
...film of the summer, it is also the grandest: Devlin and Roland Emmerich, the director and co-author, dare to imagine the ultimate catastrophe as it kills off tens of millions of unseen victims and ennobles a dozen major characters, from the Commander in Chief to a stripper's pet...