Word: trauma
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...POWER OF FEELINGS Physical trauma can distort memory, presumably by destroying all or part of one of these memory-processing structures. But other sorts of shock-strong emotion, for example-can do the same. Virtually everyone who was over the age of 10 when J.F.K. was shot or when Challenger exploded remembers precisely where he or she was when the news arrived. Posttraumatic stress disorder, which affects Vietnam vets like Bill Noonan, is another good example. While the intellectual memory of emotions is routed through the hippocampus, a different, gut-level sort of memory can be involuntarily revived with terrible...
...them, in A.A. parlance, to "hit bottom." The veterans are being joined by younger people--and women, gays and minorities--as well as by those who are sent to A.A. as part of a court sentence. The newcomers often bring an array of ancillary problems to meetings, including emotional trauma and addiction to other drugs. As the organization metamorphoses, its supporters wonder whether A.A. can or should be such a big tent. "That's a real question," says George Vaillant, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an expert on A.A. "Where is the line? What is the responsible...
...huge hospital complex, which serves 60,000 overnight clients and 855,000 outpatients a year, is an island of security in violence-riven East L.A. If it were to close, smaller, private facilities might fail to replicate the quality of its burn center and trauma ward; or, most important, its commitment to the uninsured poor, who make up 40% of its customers. Already furious at California's anti-immigrant Proposition 187, local leaders see Reed's plan as a pursuit of the same policy by different means. Said Chicano activist Agustin Cebada: "This is genocide against our community...
Adelaide, convinced that her lingering head cold is the direct result of the psychological trauma brought on by Nathan's refusal to tie the knot, sneezes her way through one of the best musical theater songs ever written. And Toro, obviously enjoying himself, plays the crass and loose lipped New Yorker to the hilt...
...children, the healing may be much quicker. In kids under 18 months old, some specialists contend, the central nervous system is still too undeveloped for memories to become firmly established. But other experts insist that memories are stored and may resurface when children are old enough to verbalize their trauma. In any case, says Dr. Blom, "we can only give them a stable, warm environment and hope that the nervous system by its immaturity will allow them some relief...