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...idea for the eye test came from Huntington Potter, a neuroscientist at Harvard Medical School, who ingeniously followed up on an observation about people with Down syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes mental retardation. Potter knew that almost all Down patients who live long enough eventually develop brain lesions identical to those detected in autopsies of Alzheimer's sufferers. By scouring the scientific literature, he learned that people with Down syndrome are very sensitive to tropicamide, the drug used to dilate the pupil of the eye. Potter then approached Leonard Scinto, a neuroscientist now at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
Just as important, researchers are testing drugs that may slow mental deterioration in Alzheimer's patients. For those medications to work, however, physicians must administer them before there is any memory loss. "Otherwise, there isn't enough brain left for the drugs to work," Scinto notes. He and Potter plan to study 400 patients over the next year. If the eye test lives up to expectations, it could be on the market within the next two years...
...pattern in Stone's life after Harvard, she was "in the right place at the right time". She happened upon the opportunity to work on a film set, learned to work their cameras, and used them to create her first film "De Barro" ("Of Clay") about a Mexican campesina potter...
Only two characters seem strongly moved by the events of the film: the aforementioned prosecutor and the evil general, who is so consistently irate that he looks more like M*A*S*H*'s Colonel Potter on a back day than a man struggling with the responsibilities of authority in the face of bloody warfare...
...have the software to induce the intended physiological response to the author's erotic obsessions, and these are the essence of the book. Such thoughts, of course, must occur regularly to gays when they read about heterosexual sex. You don't have to be a rabbit to enjoy Beatrix Potter, but you may have to be either gay or straight to appreciate gay or straight erotica...