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- <title>
- Sep. 07, 1992: Health:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Sep. 07, 1992 The Agony of Africa
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 23
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Et Cetera
- </hdr><body>
- <p>DIMINISHED CAPACITY
- </p>
- <p> Many researchers think the hallucinations and delusions of
- schizophrenia reflect a physical deterioration of the victim's
- brain. Now comes a new study from Harvard that strengthens that
- theory. Magnetic-resonance imaging of 15 schizophrenic and 15
- normal men shows that the former have less gray matter in the
- left temporal lobe, a region believed to be important to
- language processing. The degree of shrinkage matched the
- severity of thought disorder--implying that while a cure for
- the disease is nowhere close, scientists may at least be zeroing
- in on the cause.
- </p>
- <p>WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?
- </p>
- <p> Many parents think their babies are geniuses. Now a report in
- Nature argues--not altogether convincingly--that tots can
- actually add and subtract at five months. After showing objects
- to infants, a psychologist hid the objects with a screen; she
- then reached behind the screen to add or remove one. But she
- added or subtracted objects surreptitiously as well. When the
- screen was lifted, the infants stared longer at a wrong number
- of objects than they did when the result was correct.
- Conclusion: they were doing a double take. Ah, science!
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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