Word: snyders
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...prefrontal cortex. Such may be the condition of all psychopaths. This is not to say that experience has no relevance to character. Abuse during childhood, experience of all sorts is inscribed on the brain. But childhood traumas have never fully explained the psychopath, says Dr. Solomon Snyder, director of neuroscience at Johns Hopkins Medical School. "It's not as though these people weren't disciplined by their parents or didn't go to church. They can think rationally, but the moral judgment is lacking. It's as if there's a hole in the moral part of their brain...
...moral judgment can be broken, surely the next step is to fix it. "If the abnormality is in a discrete part of the brain that uses a specific neurotransmitter, we could develop a drug treatment," suggests Dr. Snyder. It might even be possible to devise exercises to fortify wayward judgment, just as a stroke patient can benefit from occupational therapy. Another possibility: a prenatal test -- abort the psychopath...
Since then, he has presided at three Wimbledon finals and numerous other Grand Slam tournaments, along the way giving clinics in the essentials and art of officiating. "I think Sultan has trained virtually every official in Africa," says Jay Snyder, director of the U.S. Open...
Others saw him more harshly. Last week, asked why Redstone would have wanted to get rid of Snyder, a source close to Davis compared him to Captain Queeg, saying, "It was a matter of how long before your patience runs out. He got more and more imperialistic." Frank Biondi, the president and CEO of Viacom and the man who fired Snyder, says simply, "Dick Snyder's operating philosophy and Viacom's operating philosophy were just at odds with each other...
...DICK SNYDER...