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These problems, however, are purely external, and say nothing about the emotional trauma which this testing system puts students through. America's most famous standardized test, the SAT (presently named Scholastic Assessment Test, formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test), provides the best example of the potential emotional harm to students. According to a report in last month's Newsweek, the long-term effects of the SAT are not negligible. This takes into account the domino-effect theories linking SAT scores to success in life, and the wide range of fields (including unlikely areas such as real estate) that are indirectly influenced...
...with a protein called vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF2) in restoring circulation in the legs of diabetics and, more impressively, stimulating new vessel growth in patients with severe heart disease. Says former Eli Lilly chairman Randall Tobias: "The day will come when we regard all surgeries, except [treatment of] trauma, as failures of the pharmaceutical industry...
Their cases could, of course, be just medical oddities, but Damasio thinks otherwise. In his view, more subtle malfunctions of the prefrontal cortex, including physical or psychological trauma caused by childhood abuse, could be at the root of many troubled lives. If so, his two cases may explain a much wider societal problem that cries out for medical and psychological intervention...
...catalog of trauma turned out to be a long one. Below the right knee, the tibia and fibula shattered into half a dozen pieces. The right femur broken, the ball joint at the hip damaged. The elbow of the right arm crushed. Several ribs snapped, their sharp ends driven into the lungs. Collarbone and sternum busted. What saved me was the merest fluke: apart from punctured lungs, a few picturesque cuts and some bruising to my liver and heart, the damage was all skeletal, not soft tissue. My brain was intact; ditto my eyes, spine, guts and genitals. It could...
Likely as not, the children themselves are victims of emotional trauma. "These children are suffering profound loss," says Sylvie de Toledo, founder of Grandparents as Parents (GAP), a California support network. "They come with everything from emotional, behavioral, academic and medical problems to physical disabilities from prenatal substance abuse...